Duncan Shannon wrote: > Ive got my gateway at work, which is a beater 233mhz box running rh 7.x > i think its dying... or at a min. something is wrong. > > I logged in the other day on the console, and hit a `w` and it was > pretty slow... i logged in on another virt. console and it ran `top` > and it never quite loaded up all the way... i left it alone. > > Yesterday, i tried to ssh to it, i got an `error 11` and couldnt > connect. > > So i went up to look at it today, and there was what looked like a > kernel panic... it was something bad. couldn't do anything from ctrl c > to switch virtual consoles to reseting the terminal. > > I finally had to reboot it... when it booted up, it never got past > `mounting USB filesystem` are you sure it wasn't hacked? had you kept up with the latest patches and versions of software? > in the end, i dropped in a replacement box... id like to rescue the > other box somehow, is it as all my monitoring software setup and just > some other things setup (bind for internal use with an internal zone et > al) > > Anyone have any suggestions on how to try and bring that box backup > online? I was thinking of removing all non-essential drives and > peripherals. restore the necessary files from backups...you DO have backups right? -- scot _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list