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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: telnetd dies on 2.1?
Date: 15 Jun 1996 16:32:58 GMT
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dhawk@netcom.com (David H) wrote:

> I have a machine on the net that's running 2.1 FreeBsd. It was
> up and running for 94 days without a hitch and then Something
> Happened. Users couldn't login in to it. The web server was
> still serving documents, but various process quit working --
> it didn't run its nightly crontab jobs. When it was rebooted
> there wasn't anything in the messages file that indicated what
> went wrong.

It might be a disk problem.  Try forwarding the syslog messages to
another machine.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)