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On 20 Apr 2010, at 13:01, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: |
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> ... |
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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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You emphasise how old the hardware is, but this really isn't a |
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problem. As you say, one increasingly fears the death of a system |
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which is getting so old, but I have two systems nearly as old running |
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for years without hardware problems. |
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The questions I must ask are: |
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- How uptodate is the Gentoo software? |
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- Do you run updates regularly? |
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- Did you run any shortly before this started occurring? |
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- Have you run revdep-rebuild and stuff? |
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- Does the system have sufficient swap? |
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Stroller. |
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