Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-box stopping services

[Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>]

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

Have you looked at dmesg in case there is something there that the kernel's 
spewed out?  Also, you haven't run out of space?  df -h 

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Regards,
Mick

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