There can be any number of possibilities, none of which are good. I
have seen similar events happening when a drive is about to fail. I
might also expect the mother board or one of its components. I would
prepare a new machine ASAP.
Brian Chabot wrote:
>
> One of my clients has an old mail server / name server / dhcp server
> / gateway that is REALLY acting up. This is a RedHat 6.0 machine
> running kernel 2.2.5-15.
>
> I moved the mail responsibility to a new box, and now the old one is not
> responding to much of anything.
>
> I can not telnet to any port or ssh from the LAN. I managed to talnet
> (I know... cleartext passwords. I didn't set this up) from outside and
> no matter what command I give it I get:
>
> bash: fork: Resource temperarily unavailable
>
> Of course, you can replace bash with whatever shell your in at the time.
>
> If no one is telnetted in, the console does work some of the
> time. other times I get the same error.
>
> The machine is at runlevel 3. netstat shows normal connections both to
> the lan and the outside, and the routing looks fine. No new software
> was added. Only the named files (one CNAME changed and an A record
> added) were changed.
>
> I can't even get to the logs to give you some idea of what's happenning.
>
> Anyone have clues? I'm desperate and this is time sensitive.
>
> Brian
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