15 Dec
2003
15 Dec
'03
09:01
Dear people, I'm only an amateurish part-time sysadmin, so please bear with me. This weekend our web server (SuSE 8.0) crashed. The machine could be pinged, but did not respond to http or ssh requests. When I came in this morning, I could not get the screen to wake up, so I had to forcibly reboot the machine. After rebooting, I checked the logfiles (at least those that I know about) and the only one in which something strange appeared was Apaches access_log: right after the last (innocent) request before the crash must have happened, there was a string of 762 \x00 characters, and then nothing until the time I rebooted the machine this morning. Does anyone have an idea what this could be? Thanks, Jan Pieter Kunst