I have an unstable RedHat 9 machine acting as my department's primary
mail server and DNS server. Obviously, having this machine crash on a
*weekly* basis is unacceptable, and I'm at my wits end trying to figure
this one out. I notice that while no log shows any kinds of errors
(that I can find that is), the console occasionally shows this error:
"svc: short len 2, dropping request". Suffice it to say, I have no idea
what this means, and Google didn't help. Does anyone have any idea
where I should start, or something specific to look for? I can say that
all this instability seems to have started (though I can be 100% sure)
with the replacement of the hard drive after a HD failure. However, I
have run hdparm with numerous options trying to rule out hardware
problems, and I haven't seen any errors thus far. I am running the
latest kernel before RedHat moved to EL. Thanks for any light you can
shed on this!
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James Jordan
Systems Administrator
UNC Chapel Hill Dept. of Biomedical Engineering
919-966-8077
jwjordan AT bme.unc.edu
[unclug] Unstable RedHat 9 machine,
James Jordan, 06/10/2004