If you know about the time it locked up, look through the /var/log/messages during that time. The logs may have been rolled over since then, in which case, they will be named .gz at the end. These are just gzipped files, which you can copy to another location, and unzip. The logs might give you an indication if it was a software-based problem. If the hardware caused the issue, then you may not get anything in the logs, but could get lucky. If you are not sure what you are looking at, feel free to post the logs here, and we can take a look.
Jeremiah E. Bess Network Ninja, Penguin Geek, Father of four On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 09:39, Kari Matthews <[email protected]> wrote: > I just had a guy call me and tell me they couldn't get on their (newly > installed, courtesy of me) Linux server. It was on, but had "locked up" I > guess. They rebooted and it's fine now. > > So now I need to go down there and try to figure out what went wrong. I > have never had a linux box do that. Any ideas? Can someone give me a log > tutorial? Where do I look to see what happened? > > Ugh. > kari > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users > Group. > To post a message, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit our group at > http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup
