[clue-adm] ta8 dropped?

[Grant Johnson]

I would look at the kernel logs for hardware failures.  My last lockup was a
flamed CPU.  (occasionally accelerated X gives me trouble, but nothing I can't
telnet in and kill.)

Roy Johnston wrote:

> I double checked... no one rebooted it.
>
> Since all of my servers run Linux, I'm pretty anal about everyone other than
> Dave & myself leaving them alone.
>
> It was evidently a lockup.  Dave just got back to the office, and he had to
> power off to get it back.   He couldn't even get command line from the
> keyboard.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: clue-admin-admin at ta8.techangle.com
> [mailto:clue-admin-admin at ta8.techangle.com]On Behalf Of Jeffery Cann
> Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2000 7:24 AM
> To: clue-admin at ta8.techangle.com
> Subject: [clue-adm] ta8 dropped?
>
> Greetings.
>
> I am not sure what happened this morning to ta8 at about 7:15 am.  But,
> I was ONE KEYSTROKE away from writing my changes to linuxconf (for
> mysql) and the box dropped.
>
> If the server died unexpectedly, then no problem, I understand.
>
> BUT - if someone actually rebooted the server, then THEY MUST execute a
> 'who' to see if anyone else is logged in a working on the box.  If
> someone is working, then please send a broadcast message / warning that
> the box will reboot in X minutes.
>
> Roy, can you make sure that your staff understands this 'who' check for
> ta8?
>
> Thanks
> Jeff
>
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