Re: Some commands is not working in Linux server

["Karl E. Jorgensen" <karl@jorgensen.org.uk>]

Hi

On Mon, 2015-02-23 at 21:00 +0530, Justinmp wrote:
> Greetings to all..
> 
> Everything was working normally until last day.From today I am not
> able to execute few commands like ls in cent os machine.Interesting
> part is ls -al is working fine.
> 
> When ever I issued ls , du -sh *  ,yum update system got stuck and
> putty session  freezes.
> 
> Is this because of any hardware issue ?This server is remotely
> accessed.

You do not list many symptoms, so the server could be suffering from
anything. Or your network may suffer from anything.  Without more
details, the best we can do is pure speculation.

... "yum update" ?? You know: this is a debian list...