[Gllug] server sleeping

[Casper Gasper]

On 29/08/06, Adrian McMenamin <adrian at newgolddream.dyndns.info> wrote:
> On Tue, August 29, 2006 2:37 pm, Casper Gasper wrote:
> > I've got a strange problem with a server at a remote office, which
> > seems to be going down sometime after midnight every sunday without
> > fail.  I can see if I try to connect to it, I get a SYN,ACK packet
> > back but that's about it.  When I get to it on Monday, I can't even
> > log on to the console and have to hold down the power button.  There's
> > absolutely nothing in the logs past about midnight, and no errors at
> > all listed.
> >
> >   It seems as if the hard drive is going to sleep, although there is a
> > mailq pickup which activates every 15 minutes and gets logged, so I'm
> > not sure exactly how it manages this.  Anecdotal evidence suggests the
> > one Saturday somebody logged into the box, it didn't go down.  Can't
> > see anything in crontab that might run on a Sunday  at this time.
> >
> > Any suggestions?  The box is running SME Server 7.0
> >
> What's in cron.weekly that'snot in cron.daily?


Thanks, I was about to reply "nothing", but took a second look and it
turns out clamscan runs a check on the drive just after midnight on
Sunday.  Just tried running the process manually and after 15 minutes
it locks the machine up completely.  Now I just need to find out why.

Casper.
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