Re: [CentOS] mysterious weekly shutdown

2010-04-12 Thread m . roth
> > On Mon, 2010-04-12 at 14:46 -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> >> Does the machine that that account is logged on from fire up a >> screen-locking screen saver after some reasonable amount of inactivity >> (like 20 min or so?) > > No, it just sits there doing nothing forever until someone sits d

Re: [CentOS] mysterious weekly shutdown

2010-04-12 Thread Frank Cox
On Mon, 2010-04-12 at 14:46 -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > > Does the machine that that account is logged on from fire up a > screen-locking screen saver after some reasonable amount of inactivity > (like 20 min or so?) No, it just sits there doing nothing forever until someone sits down in fr

Re: [CentOS] mysterious weekly shutdown

2010-04-12 Thread m . roth
> > On Mon, 2010-04-12 at 13:43 -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> *This, I don't understand. Either freeads or frankcox shut the system >> down, it looks like to me. Could your account have been compromised? > > I'm starting to wonder about freeads, actually. That account is > generally left logge

Re: [CentOS] mysterious weekly shutdown

2010-04-12 Thread Frank Cox
On Mon, 2010-04-12 at 20:56 +0300, Jussi Hirvi wrote: > Is the machine connected to an UPS? > > Maybe the UPS either sends a shutdown signal, or maybe it just breaks > the powerfeed periodically because an old battery / overload (ours > did > once), and the machine cannot restart itself after t

Re: [CentOS] mysterious weekly shutdown

2010-04-12 Thread Frank Cox
On Mon, 2010-04-12 at 13:43 -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > *This, I don't understand. Either freeads or frankcox shut the system > down, it looks like to me. Could your account have been compromised? I'm starting to wonder about freeads, actually. That account is generally left logged-in from

Re: [CentOS] mysterious weekly shutdown

2010-04-12 Thread Jussi Hirvi
Is the machine connected to an UPS? Maybe the UPS either sends a shutdown signal, or maybe it just breaks the powerfeed periodically because an old battery / overload (ours did once), and the machine cannot restart itself after that. - Jussi Hirvi -- Jussi Hirvi * Green Spot Topeliuksenkatu

Re: [CentOS] mysterious weekly shutdown

2010-04-12 Thread Frank Cox
On Mon, 2010-04-12 at 13:11 -0400, Kwan Lowe wrote: > Since disabling pcsd a few > months ago it has been solid. Interesting. Since there is no particular reason why pcsd needs to be running on this machine, I just disabled it. I'll see what happens now. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ h

Re: [CentOS] mysterious weekly shutdown

2010-04-12 Thread m . roth
Frank wrote: > > On Mon, 2010-04-12 at 13:19 -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> This - I wonder if someone's somehow getting in. Anything in >> /var/log/secure for 12:43? > > Apr 9 18:13:46 answeringmachine gdm[2965]: pam_unix(gdm:session): > session opened for user freeads by (uid=0) > Apr 10 12:4

Re: [CentOS] mysterious weekly shutdown

2010-04-12 Thread Frank Cox
On Mon, 2010-04-12 at 13:19 -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > This - I wonder if someone's somehow getting in. Anything in > /var/log/secure for 12:43? Apr 9 18:13:46 answeringmachine gdm[2965]: pam_unix(gdm:session): session opened for user freeads by (uid=0) Apr 10 12:43:49 answeringmachine gdm

Re: [CentOS] mysterious weekly shutdown

2010-04-12 Thread m . roth
Frank wrote: > I have a Centos 5.4 machine that has, for the past two weeks, apparently > been shut off over the weekend. It's just sitting there turned off on > Monday morning and when someone hits the power switch it comes right > back on and everything works again. > > This happened last weeke

Re: [CentOS] mysterious weekly shutdown

2010-04-12 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Frank Cox wrote: > I have a Centos 5.4 machine that has, for the past two weeks, apparently > been shut off over the weekend.  It's just sitting there turned off on > Monday morning and when someone hits the power switch it comes right > back on and everything work

[CentOS] mysterious weekly shutdown

2010-04-12 Thread Frank Cox
I have a Centos 5.4 machine that has, for the past two weeks, apparently been shut off over the weekend. It's just sitting there turned off on Monday morning and when someone hits the power switch it comes right back on and everything works again. This happened last weekend, and again over this p