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