[Hampshire] Repeated server crash overnight

2023-03-13 Thread rmluglist2--- via Hampshire
Hi all I have an Ubuntu box which is on 24/7/365. It has ufw running allowing nothing from outside my lan. A couple of times recently, I've come in to find the machine locked up with a lot of disk access (it can be ping'd but I can't ssh into it and it doesn't respond to mouse or keyboard

Re: [Hampshire] Repeated server crash overnight

2023-03-13 Thread Simon Reap via Hampshire
Hi Rob, anything in /etc/cron.daily which would run at or about midnight? Or any files in /var/spool/cron/crontabs or /etc/cron.d? Or even a self-re-scheduling "at" job? ("sudo atq" will list any pending jobs) On 13/03/2023 08:02, rmluglist2--- via Hampshire wrote: Hi all I have an Ubuntu bo

Re: [Hampshire] Repeated server crash overnight

2023-03-13 Thread Gareth Evans via Hampshire
Hi Rob, You didn't say if you had checked /var/log/syslog Is there anything indicative of the issue there? The only indexing task I can think of is updatedb for locate, which I think is a cron.daily thing - haven't used Ubuntu for a few years so may be wrong. Which filesystem(s)? Do you h

Re: [Hampshire] Repeated server crash overnight

2023-03-13 Thread rmluglist2--- via Hampshire
[snip] > /var/log/syslog > >Is there anything indicative of the issue there? Nothing that I can see. All I can tell is something called freshclam which I’d never even heard of. Ufw is blocking a lot of requests – but only from two media clients (box in question is my media server) so

Re: [Hampshire] Repeated server crash overnight

2023-03-13 Thread Gareth Evans via Hampshire
> On 13 Mar 2023, at 13:31, rmluglist2--- via Hampshire > wrote: > >  > [snip] > > /var/log/syslog > > > >Is there anything indicative of the issue there? > > Nothing that I can see. All I can tell is something called freshclam which > I’d never even heard of. That's the automatic up

Re: [Hampshire] Repeated server crash overnight

2023-03-13 Thread James Dutton via Hampshire
On Mon, 13 Mar 2023 at 08:03, rmluglist2--- via Hampshire < hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote: > Hi all > > > > I have an Ubuntu box which is on 24/7/365. It has ufw running allowing > nothing from outside my lan. > > > > A couple of times recently, I’ve come in to find the machine locked up >

Re: [Hampshire] Repeated server crash overnight

2023-03-13 Thread Brad Macpherson via Hampshire
G'day all, On 13/03/2023 14:32, James Dutton via Hampshire wrote: On Mon, 13 Mar 2023 at 08:03, rmluglist2--- via Hampshire mailto:hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk>> wrote: Hi all __ __ I have an Ubuntu box which is on 24/7/365.   It has ufw running allowing nothing from outs