On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 01:15:26PM +1100, Voytek wrote: > what actually happened was: > > I wanted to restart httpd to load some config edits; > I had 2 ssh sessions to the server, > I issued 'service httpd status', there was two lines full of httpd process > after I issued 'service httpd status', the prompt never came back, both > ssh sessions timed out and dropped, system became uncontactable: no ssh, > no http, no smtp > this morning, system was power cycled, and, is up again
Look at the logs. Specifically, Apache's error.log, and wherever your system dumps all of it's messages (/var/log/messages is a good place). Depending on your syslog config, you may need to check other logs as well. About the only thing that might not show up in a log is a kernel panic if it locked up hard and fast. - Matt
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