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| Posted by GCSkye, 06-29-2009, 06:39 PM |
| I have a vps and I was having memory issues so I reboot my server. Upon doing that it seems to have put itself into a loop and is constantly rebooting itself every 5mins.
I checked the logs at /var/log/messages and found this:
Off-topic: Using Santrex for hosting. They are the worst host you can find. Their servers and service is bogus. They don't help you for the millions of server problems and downtime you experience.
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| Posted by Jonathan Kinney, 06-29-2009, 07:47 PM |
| From the logs, I do not see any indication of the server rebooting. I do see normal internal checks that servers are often setup to do. These are normal logs of xinetd and pure-ftpd activity. What indication are you having that the VPS is continually rebooting?
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| Posted by GCSkye, 06-29-2009, 07:49 PM |
| Host: evercuben
Date: Jun-29 10:30
Port: 80
Action: apache restart
That email is sent every 5minutes.
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| Posted by adminpaul, 06-30-2009, 05:44 AM |
| Hi,
That might be an apache restart. Please check the error log of apache. You will surely get the reason for apache restart from there.
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| Posted by inspiron, 06-30-2009, 06:20 AM |
| I think you should need to contact your support for and official answer.. to check is there any turned off cronjob is setup for various reasons.
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| Posted by Jonathan Kinney, 06-30-2009, 07:56 PM |
| Sounds like a malfunctioning control panel or some other management script. Not knowing what that is, I would probably not be the one to ask, but I would suggest you contact your host, or who ever setup the system, control panel, or VPS, they should know and be able to assist you with what ever issues you may be having.
One clear suggestion would be to investigate the resource issue you mentioned, and adjust things so you do not hit those resource limits, or upgrade your account to one adequate for your usage. When you hit resource limits, whether having to do with disk space or ram, all kinds of nasty things can result. What ever the case, the solution to resource issues is not to restart the VPS, but rather reconfigure your software to stay within limits, or find out what loose end is not being taken care of, such as log files that are never rotated and hit a maximum size that an application can not handle anymore.
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| Posted by GCSkye, 07-07-2009, 10:40 AM |
| Santrex is a horrible host and provides no service so that is out of the question. As for resource limit, this it not a problem.
Right now the problem continues to consist. I have had my server shut down for about 5 days and just rebooted it today with the same results. I am using hypervm and lxadmin.
Within the hypervm cp I attempted to recover corrupt vps. This didn't help at all. Other than rebuilding it, I don't know what to do.
Here is a few of the other logs:
var/log/message
var/log/secure
var/log/cron
Those are the only 3 that seem to be changing within the var/log section. If I need to check something else that may give more info let me know.
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