Eric Webb writes: [Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > On Sat, 31 Oct 1998 11:43:05 -0500 (EST), > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about Re: [ale] Locking up Linux (how to?): > > Nick Lucent writes: > > -- Start of PGP signed section. > > > On Fri, 30 Oct 1998, Eric Webb wrote: > > > > > > check the security howto, and the firewall howto. > > > > > > Nick > > > > I would like to recommend the book "Linux Network Toolkit" by Paul G. Sery > > (ISBN 0-7645-3146-8) as well as the above. > > Well, the reason for even writing this question was to try to discover why my > box is spontaneously rebooting very often. My only guess so far is that it's > a service attack, but I can't find anything. > > Ideas?
As suggested by others, don't overlook hardware problems like a CPU fan going bad, power supply, reset switch, etc. I've personally had each of these go bad on me 8-) Try compiling a kernel, bad ram will show up very quickly as a SIG 11 (unless it is in the middle of the kernel itself). Try the SIG 11 web site and see if it can point you in the right direction: http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/ -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. ....- -.-. .. -.-
