Ok here it is:
Out of the blue [isn't it always]
Users could no longer login to the machine via telnet. When I heard of the problem I could not log onto the machine via console.
We have 64 licenses and there are never more than 30 users on at a time. This time there were only 11 users. No one was root. No scripts were running at the time. The disks have plenty of space.
One user had 3 <defunct> processes and they were WordPerfect. I know cause I was dealing with her about 3 hours prior.
People who were already logged in could still work but could not log out once I told them to.
telnetd was running. Prior to my reboot which cleared the problem I shut down telnet but was still unable to log in.
The error logs don't really say much at all.
Soooo the only thing I can fathom right now is that telnet got crazy and spawned multiple sessions for one user. Hindsight I didn't really double check the telnet count via ps -ef.
How do you all have your syslog.conf setup? and do you like errpt ..I find it very distasteful.
Out of the blue [isn't it always]
Users could no longer login to the machine via telnet. When I heard of the problem I could not log onto the machine via console.
We have 64 licenses and there are never more than 30 users on at a time. This time there were only 11 users. No one was root. No scripts were running at the time. The disks have plenty of space.
One user had 3 <defunct> processes and they were WordPerfect. I know cause I was dealing with her about 3 hours prior.
People who were already logged in could still work but could not log out once I told them to.
telnetd was running. Prior to my reboot which cleared the problem I shut down telnet but was still unable to log in.
The error logs don't really say much at all.
Soooo the only thing I can fathom right now is that telnet got crazy and spawned multiple sessions for one user. Hindsight I didn't really double check the telnet count via ps -ef.
How do you all have your syslog.conf setup? and do you like errpt ..I find it very distasteful.
