Hi Dotan,
Le 23/01/2012 17:49, Dotan Cohen a écrit :
Thanks, all. I suppose that you all are right, considering that 5.2 is no longer supported. I was under the impression that this is an older but up-to-date install. This server sits in a datacenter hundreds or thousands of kilometers from anyone related to it, so I will back it all up via rsync. Do I risk my home Debian or Fedora boxes by downloading the server's files to them? Of course I won't deliberately execute any files that I download, and I won't be root, but I'd like to know if I need to take any extra precautions.
Are you really sure it is CentOS 5.2 ? I am very surprised of that, as any 'yum update' would have update to 5.7. And for a public web server, I am surprised that no update at all have been done.
Could you send to us the result of : # cat /etc/redhat-release
For example, it is what I get from a new installed machine (CentOS 6) : $ cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS release 6.2 (Final)
There could be other reasons why a machine becomes irresponsive (sleeping states for example)...
Alain