I was on the server no more than a few minutes before it went down. I was just doing a daily check (server up, filesystem usage not up too much, system not too busy, etc.). Everything seemed fine. I logged off. Minutes later I was going to check for a URL from the FTP site and was unable to get a response.

Just thought I would send this is a very minor data point suggesting that at least there is no obvious minutes-long software-related process that leads to the lockup.

Ken

-------- Forwarded Message -------- From: sysmon@hetzner.de To: ken@kencausey.com Subject: Notification for 85.10.195.197 -> ping:ERROR Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:18:20 +0200 (CEST)

Notification for 85.10.195.197:

==> PING <== State is now: ERROR (21:18h 2008.10.10) State before: OK (was 4 days) Service params: Service uptime: 97.42% Check output:

PING 85.10.195.197 (85.10.195.197) 56(84) bytes of data. --- 85.10.195.197 ping statistics --- 20 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 9564 ms