From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 9 17:42:27 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA11922 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 9 Dec 1995 17:42:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from netcom17.netcom.com (dhawk@netcom17.netcom.com [192.100.81.130]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA11917 for ; Sat, 9 Dec 1995 17:42:23 -0800 (PST) Received: by netcom17.netcom.com (8.6.12/Netcom) id RAA15298; Sat, 9 Dec 1995 17:40:31 -0800 From: dhawk@netcom.com (David H) Message-Id: <199512100140.RAA15298@netcom17.netcom.com> Subject: 2.0.5 System Quit Taking Logins? To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 9 Dec 1995 17:40:31 -0800 (PST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Background: I'm running a conferencing system on 2.0.5 FreeBSD. The PC is about 50 miles (don't know what that is in kilometers) from me, so I can't tend to it easily. It had been running since November 15, 1995 with no special errors in the messages file. Problem: This morning a couple of people were logged on at 1:40AM and then nobody was able to login after that. Telnetting in said connection made and then no 'getty' message and no login prompt. Was able to type carriage returns and it would go down a line, but not able to login. ping said it was alive and there were traceroute results. Don't know if the web server was responding at that time. Paged the system office and they power-cycled it. They said there was no login prompt at the monitor and no error messages on the console. /var/log/messages and dmesg - show no error messages. It booted fine when it was restarted. (That was 9am, by the way.) This afternoon I suddenly got the same symptoms: telnet in gave blank lines and no login prompt. Tried twice from two different systems. Then I tried lynx http://www.river.org and got the web page just fine. Then I tried telnet in again and got in. There were four people on and again no error messages anywhere. (This morning nobody was able to get in after 1:40am and a lot of people tried.) Any advice? I do intend to upgrade to 2.1 when I get the CD. Thanks! Y'all have been very helpful. later, david -- David Hawkins dhawk@netcom.com dhawk@river.org dhawk@well.com When you can't do as you would, you must do as you can. -- Anna Warner