Dear Juan Carlos, On Monday, March 8, 2010 you wrote: > I hope your problem won't be a regular issue and you don't see it again. I don't expect to see it again soon. The machine runs rock solid for a year now without any trouble. Years ago, it happened from time to time that services just died after some time (months?), but I think this doesn't happen any longer. I don't know if this comes from the more decent hardware we are using these days or from better software. > All of the servers I've installed have a few tools by default to make tests > in this cases (tcpdump (wireshark if gui), iptraf, > iptables/pf,netcat,sysinternals(windows),...) and have a monitoring packages > (Nagios/Ntop) in other machine to obtain data. Sounds like a good idea. I will put some tools on the machines. again, thanks for your help! best regards --- Michael Schumacher PAMAS Partikelmess- und Analysesysteme GmbH Dieselstr.10, D-71277 Rutesheim Tel +49-7152-99630 Fax +49-7152-996333 Geschäftsführer: Gerhard Schreck Handelsregister B Stuttgart HRB 252024