[ILUG] Re: Sleeping Beauty ;(

[Gerard Gorman]

Kenn Humborg wrote:

> > 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

ok...that sounds like a good idea. I will do that and then and let you know if
it fixs it. Part of my problem is that I have this NMC motherboard (for AMD)
and to be honest I don't understand many of the options in the APM section of
the bios ;(
Thanks for your help,
g