Re: Unknown Server Failure, Logs and openntpd
On Fri, 30 May 2008, "Douglas A. Tutty" <dtutty@porchlight.ca> writes:
> I don't know what caused the freeze; The hard reset would keep the
> shutdown scripts from setting the system time to the hardware clock. On
> restart, did the ntpd eventually get a network connection and fix the
> time?
Yes. As soon as network interface woke up, openntpd clients started to
connect to ntp peers and fixed the time.
> It may not have been a freeze at all, just a networking problem that
> wasn't found by fitzing with the cable.
>
> Logging in from a VT or serial terminal would have been helpful. If you
> are concerned that this may happen again, you may even want to connect
> up a serial console to another box (or a real serial VT) and watch that
> as well.
That's exactly what I did. It seems to be the only feasible solution at
this time.
Regards.
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