[ale] Mysterious hang

[Tony Carter]

On Tuesday 22 March 2005 09:27 pm, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> Use serial console and then watch it to see if you are getting any
> kernel panics
>
> On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 20:29, David Corbin wrote:
> > I have a headless server that I don't use too much.  Apparently, it had a
> > problem. I could ping it, but ssh to it would just hang.  After giving it
> > a hard reset, it seems fine.  But the logs have a "5 day gap".
> >
> > Should this happen again, any ideas on how to find the actual problem?
> > Anything I should do in advance?

I would be concerned by the 5 day log gap.  You might want to check for 
compromise, root kits, etc..   

-Tony