mysterious reboot, system problems

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The boot process is actually straightforward and simple, but it can be
best described by what system you are using.  What distributionn are you 
using?

What is your boot system like?  The sysvinit style of redhat, or something
like slackware, or bsd?  When the kernel boots, everything starts with
init, then init looks for /etc/inittab and goes from there.  It can be a 
completely customized system, but anything is fairly simple to follow when 
tracing through what init would do.

On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Lucas Peet wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> My server rebooted last night out of the blue, and upon restart, things aren't quite right.
> 
> Everything seems to be working okay, but there's problems.
> 
> For instance, now when I try to bring up my firewall, I get this:
> 
> [root at riodo scripts]# ./firewall up
> iptables v1.2.4: Unknown arg `--dport'
> Try `iptables -h' or 'iptables --help' for more information.
> [root at riodo scripts]# 
> 
> This worked fine before...
> 
> That and it seems like the system isn't using the regular init scripts to bring itself up - 
there's some custom things in some scripts (like mysql) that aren't running.
> 
> All kinds of bogus stuff.  I can't seem to find anything at all in my logs either.  Some help 
would be *greatly* appreciated.
> 
> -Lucas
> 

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