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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uuneo.neosoft.com!news2.amd.com!amd!netcomsv!uu4news.netcom.com!netcomsv!uu3news.netcom.com!netcom.com!dhawk 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 Lines: 23 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