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how to know linux server reboot reason
I've a linux server previously it was on physical machine. Physical machine was getting stuck and i had to reboot it. I shifted it to xen vm. After shifting to Xen vm its now rebooting. Its doing the ...
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What to do on Hetzner/Robot 'The desired vServer action failed.' [closed]
I want to restart my vServer @ Hetzner through their Robot web-interface. All actions (start, stop, reset) won't work and give "The desired vServer action failed.". The robot states that the server is ...
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How to enable reboot/shutdown menu on xencenter
I am using the latest XenCenter 6.0.2, On a Xenserver version 6.0.0 when doing a right click on the VM I get a menu that has options for a Shut down and Reboot.
ON a server with XenServer 6.0.2 the ...
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Start call-home SSH reverse tunnel on Debian reboot
I have 3 shell scripts that each contains a while true loop and "calls" home to open a reverse ssh tunnel. The tunnels work.
I've Googled around, but not sure what will work for this. My main concern ...
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VMWare Player guest does not re-aquire IP on bridged interface after host loses and re-acquires network connectivity
I am running a Ubuntu Linux image in VMWare Player on my laptop. The host is Windows XP.
There are two network adapters configured in VMWare Player - one is host-only and the other is bridged. ...
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Solaris + run my script after Solaris boot/reboot
I have a Solaris machine ( Solaris installed on Netra-T2000 HW , Solaris version – 5.10 )
I wrote the script called update_after_solaris_already_boot.ksh
This script should automatically update ...
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How to determine whether I need to restart due to upgrades on Ubuntu?
When I use apt to update my system (e.g. run sudo aptitude full-upgrade) it sometimes installs updates that require reboots. This applies esp. for kernel (security) updates.
I can sometimes see this ...
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Backup with dd upon reboot
I'm trying to implement the easy to maintain backup solution for our local linux server. The goal is to be able to restore the whole system from image file.
What I am thinking of is just to issue ...
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Send an email on reboot [closed]
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Centos - Automatically issue a command after rebooting
I'd like to configure a server (Ubuntu) to send me an email whenever it reboots.
What would be the best way to do ...
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Apache/PHP unable to connect to external data after reboot, but works after service restart
I'm running CentOS 6, and lately I'm having trouble with the server not being able to load external data after it's rebooted.
In the PHP configuration, I have fopen URI enabled, and it works, but as ...
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Windows 2008 R2 restarts on own, no errors logged
In the last 2 days my dedicated server (Windows Web Server 2008 R2) has crashed twice and restarted.
I've looked in the Event Logs and there's nothing logged leading up to it.I'm very technical, but ...
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How can I tell if a system rebooted as well as the time of the reboot by looking at the system logs?
How can I tell if a Linux system rebooted and determine the time of the reboot by looking at the system logs, such as /var/log/messages?
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How do I get out of FreeDOS and boot the system back up without a hard reboot? [closed]
I was running a diagnostic utility from Broadcom on my network hardware and it ran in FreeDOS. I've never used this before and I am unfamiliar with it. Now I am trying to avoid hitting the power ...
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Safely rebooting a machine
I've got a simple XenServer running here and it suddenly stopped responding (I don't know why, it just doesn't respond to anything, but let's put that aside). I think I need to reboot it, but this ...
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Windows 2003: scheduled reboot don't work when a user is logged on
I would like to reboot Windows Server 2003 every night.
If I use "shutdown -r", this work well only if no user is connected to the console, or if the user connected doesn't have any open document ...
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Command server reboot using serial port or other method
I manage 3 windows servers for my dad's business, and occasionally they lock up. I work remotely and would like to send commands to the motherboard to reboot using the buttons on the chasis. I have ...
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How to remotely reboot a hung server
I'm trying to remotely reboot a hung 2003 server.
The server is pingable but I cannot remote into it.
psshutdown does not work
shutdown -i does not work
What can I do now that the server is back ...
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Setting new hostname on CentOS, it changes back after restart
On CentOS (5.x) I have a VPS that has hostname set to "olddomain.com", at least this is the domain I am getting when typing "hostname" command.
I want to change it to 'localhost.localdomain' because ...
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Memcache warnings
I have installed memcache on a Dreamhost VPS (Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.9 (lenny) / memcached 1.4.10 ) for a Drupal site .
If for some reason the server needs rebooting, memcache is not restarted and ...
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How to give permission to an account to reboot server?
I use centOS 5.7 and I need an account I have on the server to be able to reboot the server.
How do I do this? Should I maybe be worried about security issues with this?
The reason I need it...I ...
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How can I find out why a server rebooted?
My server rebooted and I am not sure why. Is there a way to find out, e.g. perhaps someone did it manually, or as a result of a windows update or a blue screen?
I've looked in the Event Viewer, but ...
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Kernel updates without rebooting
Similar to some of the topics touched on in this question, Rebooting servers for kernel updates, I was curious if there was a way in which one could apply kernel updates to the system without ...
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vSphere 5.0 - Custom folders on / are erased on reboot
I'v uploaded a folder named scripts with some scripts in the root of my vSphere 5.0 server like this:
/scripts
When I reboot the server, this folder is not there anymore. Its like if vSphere ...
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How do I give users reboot rights on fedora?
On a fedora server, an web application which is in development stages, get stoked for unknown reasons for the moment. The only solution is to restart the linux machine, but only the root has acces to ...
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Reboot fails on RHEL 6.1 after kernel update on Amazon EC2
Everytime I start a new RHEL instance, I like to perform a yum update to start with the most up-to-date system. However, everytime I try to reboot the instance after that, the instance never goes ...
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Start heartbeat automatically on reboot?
Newbie question, sorry - I've been googling 'start automatically on reboot ubuntu' and the like, but I'm not sure I've found the definitive answer.
I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 and I would like to make ...
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What to do with suddenly unreachable non-logging EC2 instance?
I have an EC2 "micro instance" running Canonical's Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.
Has been running for 6-9 months now, infrequently rebooted (once every few weeks at the most).
I just did what I thought was a ...
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Wordpress - can't install plugins after server reboot
I'm running a CentOS server which I had to reboot.
However, after the reboot I found myself unable to install wordpress plugins via its admin control panel, as I'm getting a 'failed to connect' ...
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System Claims to be Rebooting without Shutdown Running
When I try to connect to a host either locally or remotely the machine denies logins thinking that the shutdown command has been initiated:
[~]$ ssh somehost
The system is going down for reboot in 1 ...
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Windows Server 2003 apparent reboot or freeze, no apparent cause?
We have a server on a production site, it runs 24/7 though most of its traffic is normal business hours. Its function is to run a telephony call-centre using Dialogic-based hardware.
The local ...
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CentOS reboot apperently with no reason
My server has restarted and I can't find a reason for this...if you have any tips on what things should I search it will be appreciated.
Few info about server:
- CentOS release 5.6 (Final)
What I've ...
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SSH: How to start a process that won't end after system reboot?
Is there a way to do this so when I reboot my linux server the process will reopen on startup?
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Log Shutdown Command Usage/Message
I want to monitor whenever any of our machines run the shutdown command so that it can send an email or notification of an imminent reboot/shutdown. I figured that when shutdown was run it probably ...
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Would rebooting the server in a schedule be good idea for performance?
I am wondering if rebooting a server in a schedule would be good idea for performance.
Let's say we want to reboot the server at 02:00 AM per 2 nights.
The server here is Windows Server 2008 R2. ...
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Is a reboot required after edit/saving linux iptables?
If I edit iptables and then save them then must I reboot for changes to take place?
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Shutdown goes to uninterruptible sleep after sending wall message
I have a server which I'm administrating remotely over SSH, for various reasons, it needs to be restarted. However, when I try to do so, shutdown goes to uninterruptible sleep almost immediately after ...
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randomly rebooting server
I have a VPS running Windows 2008 Web Edition 32bit.
Currently it is rebooting at random times every day, usually 2-3 times a day for no reason that I can see.
The hosting company assures me that the ...
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what is causing the server to go down?
I have an aws ec2 server Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS and every week it keeps shutting down for whatever reason I have no idea. I go in the aws console and reboot the server and all is well. What can be causing ...
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Allow Non-admin Users to reboot Win 2008 R2 Server
Is there a way to give a Non-Admin user dedicated permissions to reboot a server?
Would it work to create a "Rebooter" Group and can I assign a group policy to allow reboots?
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Easy way to wait for reboot of a host from a script?
I have a script running on machine A that needs to trigger the reboot of machine B and then wait until machine B is fully back up. This actually needs to happen multiple times in succession, so ...
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Autosys - triggering a job on machine reboot
We're using Autosys (Computer Associates) to periodically restart some of our app servers. Can we configure Autosys to run the job when the machine reboots, regardless of time?
Currently if our ...
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HP Z400 workstation with RHEL5 LINUX OS; NO MORE REACHABLE, need to reboot
The LiNUX RHEL5 Workstation Z400 stop answering to ping and it was no more possible to connect to it, even on the local console; The workstation was not reachable in anay way.
The only method I found ...
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Softwares/Tools to reboot Linux server?
We have a service to monitor our server farm by listening to the heartbeats, and send out email notifications if a server is not responding. When that happens one of us will ssh in and reboot the ...
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windows server reboots automatically after scheduled updates
I have 5 different asp.net applications running on windows server 2003. The server reboots automatically after installing scheduled updates from Microsoft.
I'm a developer and have admin rights on ...
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why was the ubuntu server rebooted
one of our virtual servers has been rebooted.
the hosting company say they did not do any reboot.
the "last" command show:
reboot system boot 2.6.36.4 Thu May 12 04:23 - 23:16 (5+18:53)
reboot ...
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Does installing FTP 7.5 on Winows 2008 require a reboot?
I want to install the new FTP 7.5 on a Windows 2008 server. Do I need to schedule this for a time when it is ok to Reboot the server?
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Windows server 2008 hours lasting restart loop then runs OK for months
My windows server 2008 (PDC) is providing AD+DNS+DHCP+RADIUS services for my network with about 100 PCs.
It runs just fine for MONTHS, only when i need to restart him (updates or other reason) ...
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“ALERT /dev/sda1 does not exist dropping to shell” after Ubuntu 10.10 install reboot
I am attempting to install Ubuntu 10.10 desktop on a Dell T7500 with two SAS drives in hardware RAID 0. Running from the CD works fine. The install process works fine. I have configured several ...
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Why does “shutdown -r now” behave differently from “reboot -f” on Debian Linux?
I've recently had to deal with a pesky, intermittent NFS client/server hung mount point issue. When the problem occurs on the client I cannot unmount, along with some other odd behavior. The only ...
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Solaris 10, telnet after reboot gets disabled
I'm working with Solaris 10 and every time I shutdown -y -g0 -i6 the telnet services gets disabled.
Any ideas?
