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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!qns3.qns.com!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newshub.csu.net!csulb.edu!drivel.ics.uci.edu!news From: Rainer Doemer <doemer> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Help me, Mister Wizard! Date: 15 May 1996 20:13:51 GMT Organization: University of California, Irvine Lines: 34 Message-ID: <4nddtv$os1@drivel.ics.uci.edu> References: <Pine.NEB.3.93.960515044938.164A-100000@natrix.wcrb.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: charon.ics.uci.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.12 (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.4 sun4m) X-URL: news:Pine.NEB.3.93.960515044938.164A-100000@natrix.wcrb.com Rob Landry <umar@wcrb.com> wrote: >I'm running NetBSD 1.1/i386 on a Compudyne 386-33 with 4 MB RAM and a 1.2 >GB hard drive. Every few days the system freezes up. > >When that happens, it won't respond to anything typed on the keyboard. >The machine can be pinged, however, and I can telnet to it and get >"Connected to zzzzz.wcrb.com", but no login prompt. The machine runs >sendmail, named and httpd, none of which respond while it is in its >"comatose" state. The only way I've been able to bring it back to life >is to power it down and cold-boot it. >[...] I've the same problem with NetBSD 1.1 on my AMIGA! The symptoms are exactly the same as yours. >Does anyone have any ideas on how I might track this problem down? Sorry, I didn't find a solution to this problem yet, but in my case the problem seems to depend on the daily/weekly/monthly scripts. You can find these files in the /etc directory and they are called regulary by a cron job (check your crontab). Everytime my system freezes it's been while executing one of these scripts... Hope this helps... Rainer. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Rainer Doemer Information and Computer Science email: doemer@ics.uci.edu University of California, Irvine http://www.ics.uci.edu/~doemer ------------------------------------------------------------------