[Gllug] server sleeping

Adrian McMenamin adrian at newgolddream.dyndns.info
Tue Aug 29 13:58:52 UTC 2006


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?

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