[NBLUG/talk] Servers rebooting every hour

Tony Fardella tonyf at sonic.net
Tue Feb 5 21:54:11 PST 2008


I'm sure you've probably done this already but I would kill the crond  
service and anything else running that looks odd or is not essential.  
That might give you a fighting chance of finding the cause of the  
reboots.

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  Tony Fardella
  Email: tonyf at sonic.net
  Skype: tfardella
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On Feb 5, 2008, at 9:43 PM, Bob Blick wrote:

> Yep, no sleeping here. By the way, the two machines are 100 miles  
> apart,
> and no other machines are rebooting. Period is more like 60 minutes  
> and
> 35 seconds between reboots. I'm thinking some kind of rootkit that is
> flawed and didn't remove its reboot-after-60-minutes script.
>
> It'll be a long night, but if anyone hears anything, please post it.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bob
>
> P.S. spoiler alert ahead...
>
> "Invasion" has a happy ending in this version! I feel cheated!
>
>
> Mike Rice wrote:
>> Have you noticed a change in their demeanor? Don't reveal your
>> emotions.
>> And don't go to sleep or wear a Fedora. </paranoia>
>>
>> --- Bob Blick <bbblick at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>
>>> This seems to have attacked two different machines - one with  
>>> Gentoo,
>>> then the Ubuntu machine.
>>> As a side note, I'm watching "Invasion" the new remake of "Invasion
>>> of the Body Snatchers", so I'm feeling very paranoid.
>
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