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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!sleipnir.iaccess.com.au!news From: username@iaccess.com.au (Real Name) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: System halting Date: 11 Jan 1996 00:48:59 GMT Organization: Company Name Lines: 29 Message-ID: <4d1mpr$l29@sleipnir.iaccess.com.au> Reply-To: phil@iaccess.com.au NNTP-Posting-Host: quest.iaccess.com.au X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.92.6+ Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.admin:37131 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:2014 Hi guys, We have a unix box running bsdi1.1 which is a name server, mail server and tacacs server. About once a week the system comes to a complete halt with no error messages appearing. The console looks normal and you can press the enter key but when you type a command nothing happens. A reboot (cntrl-alt-del and then hardware reboot after it complains that it cannot read the drive) returns the system to normal. The /tmp partion is a symbolic link to /usr/tmp which has heaps more than] 8 meg free so this doesnt seem to be the problem. There is plenty of memory and swap space. The processor is a pentium 120. Anyone have ideas what the problem may be? Thanks, Phil.