Fedora Server Crashing
Bill Polhemus
bill at polhemus.cc
Fri Mar 31 02:11:36 UTC 2006
Ki Song wrote:
> My Fedora Core 4 Linux Box (primarily used for a mail server: postfix) is
> crashing 3-4 times a day!
>
> I looked at the messages log and I see the following unexplainable record in
> the log file:
>
> crond(pam_unix)[22601]: session closed for user root
>
>
> Is someone trying to login to my server as root?
>
No, that's a pretty common "extra verbose" log entry. Can you give more
particulars about the "crashing" phenomenon?
If this is just "random crashing" while it's sitting there, offhand I'd
suspect a hardware problem.
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