Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 21:18:50 +0100 From: Nick Barnes <Nick.Barnes@pobox.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Mystery crashes with 3.3-RELEASE RAS server Message-ID: <26930.958940330@raven.ravenbrook.com>
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I have a generic PC running as a RAS server. Celeron 300, 32 MB RAM, loads of swap, 3.3-RELEASE, Cyclades 16YeP, PPP, SNMPD, MRTG, Apache. A light load. After four months of trouble-free operation, it has spontaneously crashed four times in the last two weeks. No clues anywhere in /var/log. The only recent software change has been the addition of another PPP user on one of the Cyclades ports. The only other aspect of the machine which I don't understand is why MRTG (which I run every five minutes) core dumps randomly about once a week. This machine is in a locked machine room on the other side of town; I can't sit in front of it for a week waiting for it to crash. I can't trigger the crashes (although it does seem to be associated with a PPP connection being established). I'm lost for a way to proceed. So I'm working on the basis that it's probably a hardware fault. I'm going to swap it for a new machine. Other suggestions? Nick Barnes To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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