mysterious reboot, system problems

[Lucas Peet]

Whoops sorry.

I'm running RedHat 7.2.

-Lucas
----- Original Message -----
From: <dattaway at attaway.net>
To: "Lucas Peet" <lpeet at eccod.com>
Cc: <kclug at kclug.org>
Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 10:13 AM
Subject: Re: mysterious reboot, system problems

> 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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