I think what you're seeing is output from the "mon" service which checks
whether particular services are available. If it finds, for instance, that
telnet isn't responding (i.e., you've turned off that service), then it
reports a "critical" error. Check "man mon" for details.
You could turn off "mon" in your startup services. Unless you're operating a
server, you perhaps don't need what it does. That seems preferable to me over
tuning on services like telnet which are dicey from the security standpoint.
M.
On Monday 01 January 2001 15:15, you wrote:
> Eh, actually I've seen this myself.
>
> It was NOT a hardware problem at all.
>
> Rather one of the local services was not "turned on" during installation.
>
> I went thru the services list and turned on several daemons and installed
> the appropriate RPM's for Telnet, etc.
>
> Afterwards the message disappeared on the next reboot.
>
> It seems to be related to networking setup and affected the X server as
> well... apparently having something to do with authentication.
>
> I'm sorry for not being more specific, but the problem went away so quickly
> after this that I did not dig any deeper...
>
> -JMS
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of civileme
> Sent: Monday, January 01, 2001 12:35 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [expert] Critical problem
>
> On Monday 01 January 2001 17:44, you wrote:
> > Hi:
> >
> > I had hoped never to see this, but I got the following message (when
> > logged on as root):
> >
> > <daemon.crit> mon[1256]: failure for servers telnet 978304853 localhost
> >
> > does anyone know what this means.
>
> Well, it sounds like Christmas was a little early for the new hardware you
> will need. Most likely it is memory, but it might be HDD.
>
> Civileme
>
> > Fortunately, I got rattled and was able to make a backup of all the
> > data. Now the PC won't boot. It had been having trouble in the boot
> > process, reverting to level 3 and not starting X (as it should have).
> > It was from the command line that I was able to back up my files. Now,
> > she won't boot, even from the boot floppy.
> >
> > Does anyone know what the problem could be?
> >
> > Ron
> > ./.
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Michael O'Henly
TENZO Design
