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From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
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On 2006-11-17 05:59, Rachel Florentine <rachel_florentine@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi;
> My server crashed yesterday. We finally got it back up. The
> problem was a startup script that I'd created. However, now
> that it's back up, when I ps some of the processes which are
> running (notably Zope) don't show up. Qmail doesn't show up
> either *unless* I shut it down and restart it (but that doesn't
> make the Zope processes show up). What's going on here?

You haven't, by any chance, installed a new kernel (one with
mismatched version from the userland you are using), and
accidentally rebooted (because of the crash) into this one,
right?