Re: [CentOS] Long tar -x: Box Shuts Down

2009-11-05 Thread Bill Campbell
On Fri, Nov 06, 2009, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote: >On Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:51:35 +, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote: > >> On Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:04:50 -0800, Bill Campbell wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Nov 05, 2009, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote: My Centos 5.2 box shuts itself down during a long tar -x.

Re: [CentOS] Long tar -x: Box Shuts Down

2009-11-05 Thread Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED
On Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:51:35 +, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote: > On Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:04:50 -0800, Bill Campbell wrote: > >> On Thu, Nov 05, 2009, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote: >>>My Centos 5.2 box shuts itself down during a long tar -x. There is >>>plenty of disk available. This is new; it w

Re: [CentOS] Long tar -x: Box Shuts Down

2009-11-05 Thread Ryan Pugatch
Stephen Harris wrote: > > Has your machine got a bad CPU cooling fan? The work involved in bulk > operations like that might be causing it to overheat and perform a thermal > shutdown or simply crash. I had a Windows machine that would work > just fine, except one program would cause a cr

Re: [CentOS] Long tar -x: Box Shuts Down

2009-11-05 Thread Stephen Harris
On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 11:53:05PM +, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote: > On Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:03:49 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > > > Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote: > >> My Centos 5.2 box shuts itself down during a long tar -x. There is > >> plenty of disk available. This is new; it worked in the

Re: [CentOS] Long tar -x: Box Shuts Down

2009-11-05 Thread Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED
On Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:03:49 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote: >> My Centos 5.2 box shuts itself down during a long tar -x. There is >> plenty of disk available. This is new; it worked in the past. >> >> Any suggestions? > > Are you dropping things on top of running prog

Re: [CentOS] Long tar -x: Box Shuts Down

2009-11-05 Thread Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED
On Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:04:50 -0800, Bill Campbell wrote: > On Thu, Nov 05, 2009, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote: >>My Centos 5.2 box shuts itself down during a long tar -x. There is >>plenty of disk available. This is new; it worked in the past. >> >>Any suggestions? > > Look in the logs, particula

Re: [CentOS] Long tar -x: Box Shuts Down

2009-11-05 Thread Les Mikesell
Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote: > My Centos 5.2 box shuts itself down during a > long tar -x. There is plenty of disk available. > This is new; it worked in the past. > > Any suggestions? Are you dropping things on top of running programs (like tar itself) or /proc or /sys? -- Les Mikesell

Re: [CentOS] Long tar -x: Box Shuts Down

2009-11-05 Thread Bill Campbell
On Thu, Nov 05, 2009, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote: >My Centos 5.2 box shuts itself down during a >long tar -x. There is plenty of disk available. >This is new; it worked in the past. > >Any suggestions? Look in the logs, particularly dmesg, to see if there are any hints there. Bill -- INTERNET: