John R Pierce wrote: > Mark Belanger wrote: >> Matthew Miller wrote: >>> On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 04:17:59PM -0500, Mark Belanger wrote: >>>> I have many different centos machines that are hanging >>>> regulary. I believe this is due to something our application >>>> is doing - not a centos specific problem. >>>> When the machines hang, there is no access to the console >>>> or remote access(ssh, rsh, etc). >>> >>> Do you mean that there's no *access* to the console, or that it doesn't >>> *respond* on the console? >> >> X is frozen, no way to switch the console(i.e. Ctrl-Alt-F1, >> Ctrl-Alt-Backspace), >> and no way to access the machine remotely. > > if you don't need X running, I'd stop loading it entirely (edit > /etc/inittab, and change the default runlevel to 3), and before your app > hangs, log onto the system console, and leave this command running as > root... > > # tail -f /var/log/messages /var/log/secure > > this way, any error logging will be displayed as the system crashes. X is required - though I could accomplish the same thing by logging in remotely. So far, the log files haven't shown anything interesting. -Mark > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- Mark Belanger LTX Corporation