Erik, I'd take a stab at it and say perhaps you are running mis-matched memory? is the kernel logger (dmesg) tell you anything? Does it crash? netdump? As far as getting the apache to spew, I think you mean: telnet <servername> 80 GET Ian On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 17:56, Erik Williamson wrote: > Hi All, > > I've got a machine with the following description: > Dell Precision 530 > Fully patched fedora > Dual P4 > Alteon Gigabit nic > Services running: sshd, vsftpd, apache > > Periodically, it goes (mostly) dead. It looks like this: > I can ping it. > I can nmap it, and the services are all detected > I cannot connect to any of the servers via a client (ie, ssh, ncftp, moz) > I can telnet to the appropriate ports, and get connected. (I forget how to > make an http server spew to a telnet client, but I've done it before) > Both the terminal (through kvm) and console (serial, through to a > concentrator on another machine) are dead in the water. > If I unplug the fibre to the nic, the console + terminal report this. > same for when I replug it in. Nothing happens with usb devices (just > trying to see about waking it up) > > It's last uptime was a day and a half. this is the third time it's > happened. I'm about to do hardware diagnostics on it, but am > wondering if anyone has any idea about what else I should look at. > > I power-cycled the machine and booted off of a rescue CD - mounting the > filesystems read-only - but there's nothing interesting that I can see (in > /var/log, that is). > > If anyone knows of something I should look at, probable cause, etc - > please let me know. > > Thanks for any help - > Erik. > > > e r i k w i l l i a m s o n erik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > system admin . department of computer science . university of calgary > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
