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From: dhawk@netcom.com (David H)
Subject: telnetd dies on 2.1?
Message-ID: <dhawkDsquyB.HGM@netcom.com>
Organization: Decline to State
Date: Sun, 9 Jun 1996 17:51:47 GMT
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Sender: dhawk@netcom13.netcom.com

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.

Four days later the same thing happened. I had added a .rhosts
file and still couldn't get in.

My guess is that telnetd is dying. Any way I can check this and
prevent it? Or is there some other lockup that could occur that
would let it answer pings and web requests but not accept logins?

Thanks.


later, david
--
David Hawkins    dhawk@netcom.com
As some day it may happen that a victim must be found, I've got a
little list...  -- W. S. Gilbert