[ILUG] Re: Sleeping Beauty ;(

[Kenn Humborg]

> Sep 14 04:02:00 athos anacron[5196]: Updated timestamp for job
> `cron.daily' to
> 2000-09-14
> Sep 14 04:04:05 athos PAM_pwdb[5309]: (su) session opened for user news by
> (uid=0)
> Sep 14 04:04:05 athos PAM_pwdb[5309]: (su) session closed for user news
> Sep 14 11:43:34 athos syslogd 1.3-3: restart.
> Sep 14 11:43:34 athos syslog: syslogd startup succeeded
>
>
> ? Does this mean that news is crashing my system?

No.  The news job ends (session closed for user news).

Modify the startup script for syslogd to give it a "-m 20"
option.  This writes a timestamp into the logs every 20 minutes.

This will help to determine exactly when the machine hangs.
If this stops it hanging, perhaps it is APM related, as this
will kick the disk every 20 mins.  Increase the interval until
it hangs again.  This might provide some clues.

Later,
Kenn