Figured I'd share this with you - just finished 2 hours of sweating trying to figure out what was happening with my co-lo'd server. My business partner and I were on IM managing something over phpMyAdmin when I noticed the "system going down now" reboot message on my SSH console. WTF? Starting to get nervous. System boots back up and I start grepping through /var/log files - can't find anything interesting. While I'm teeing a logfile it reboots again. WTF?!? IM messages from my buddy get a little peeved and frantic - what am I doing to the server?!? (he's not an admin, just a web designer), knock it off, etc. I tell him I have no clue (shamefully). Wait for it to come back up again. Start digging harder and with more intensity, copy log files to an alternate location, checking that last night's off-site backup ran, etc. Noticed that I was on 2.4.27 instead of 2.4.28, figure I better start building a new kernel just in case. 10 minutes go by and all seems well, except that I still can't find any indication of what is going on, no hardware messages, everything looks fabulous except for the typical iptables script kitty rejects. Goes down again, comes back up, now I'm mad, over the next 20 minutes it reboots a couple more times. I tell my buddy to call the ISP and see if they have any ideas. I shut down all non-critical services to see if maybe someone's found an exploit with apache or something. 15 minutes goes by and all's well, start up apache, 5 minutes later down she goes again. Start combing through apache logs when it's back up, trying to imagine what kind of exploit would cause a reboot and not just shut the thing down alltogether or trash data files or something. A few more minutes go by and get an IM from my buddy - ISP called back, power cord was loose. ARG! At least they were quick about finding it. Makes sense now but during the episode I was thinking much worse. Thought I'd share for your amusement... Josh _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list