[ale] RAID

[Brandon Colbert]

James P. Kinney III wrote:

>On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 08:48, Brandon Colbert wrote:
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>>I have redhat's software raid 1 setup on a server. This server ran 200 
>>days straight. But over the pass month, I have been noticing some 
>>strange problems: unable to move files, the permissions for /bin/ls 
>>changed, using more memory, when ever I type df -h, it returns 
>>*"segmentation fault," *and now  it will not boot up.  Could it be that 
>>the RAID is corrupted, if so how do I repair it? What is the cause of 
>>this problem, and how do I fix it?
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>This sounds more like a cracked box than a RAID problem. Check the
>syslogs for notices from the md subsystem. If you see things that
>indicate a drive is dying, then it's a RAID problem. If you see a gap in
>the logs (or no logs) then you have a bigger, much worse problem.
>
>Boot it with a Knoppix CD 
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James, you was right; all of the logs were cleared out. I know I 
shouldn't installed that stupid free hosting program (based on cgi). 
http://www.myidealscript.com  The server that got cracked was my first 
fully operational Linux webserver. Oh well, back to the drawing board. 
Now I can rebuild it and apply what I have learned since then. 
Security!!! Security!!! Security!!!

I guess I need to replace Sendmail. Which one is the best: sendmail, 
postfix, or qmail?