[46907] in Hotline Meeting
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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Angie Kelic)
Sun Mar 14 18:04:23 1999
To: hotline@MIT.EDU
Cc: bperrin@MIT.EDU
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 18:04:20 EST
From: Angie Kelic <sly@MIT.EDU>
The first time this machine was found dead in the cluster
(discuss txn # 46747), I booted it into single user mode
and poked around. The reason it was dying was that the
etc/athena/rc.conf file had been deleted (somewhere around
Feb 9) as had all log files that could have traced the time
that the login had happened. From the other files sitting
around on the machine it looked quite a bit like someone was
trying to set the machine up to do something (a personal
server perhaps) and failed miserably and then attempted to
delete their tracks.
The machine appears to be dead yet again. I'm not there, so
haven't looked at it, but I would suggest that whoever looks
at it take a closer look, as opposed to just doing a software
reinstall. (It's the same failure mode, it can't run afs so
can';t reactivate and keeps trying until it realizes that it's
got an error that recurs too quickly and drops down to console).
--Angie
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