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On Tuesday 20 April 2010 13:01:52 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: |
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> greetings, gentoo-users ... |
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> One of my customers runs an old P3 as a mail-gateway and samba-server |
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> (yeah, I know ...) behind his firewall ... |
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> They simply don't want to swap hardware, they are happy ... until the |
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> following started to happen every week or so: |
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> The server goes offline, you can ping it OK but services like smbd, |
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> postfix, sshd all are not reachable anymore. |
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> I "see" the open ports with nmap from my machine ... but they are shown |
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> as closed. |
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> When the guy there restarts sshd on the server itself I am able to login |
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> again without a problem. There are no bad messages in dmesg and/or |
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> /var/log/messages. |
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> But this seems to be related to the fact that syslog-ng also is inactive |
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> then ... so who should log errors ... ? |
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> -- |
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> I thought maybe the NIC has a problem? |
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> Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. |
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> RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) |
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> but as it doesn't lose its IP and config I think that is not the case here? |
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Have you looked at dmesg in case there is something there that the kernel's |
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spewed out? Also, you haven't run out of space? df -h |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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