Hi Andreas, the nobody-entry in the log means, that some regular tasks where performed. In order to be more secure it is common to perform as many tasks a possible with an unprivileged account. The least account of these is nobody, so this is used in your case. That's probably not the reason for your system-crash. Run last to find out, how long the system was up, then try to find something in the log files, that corresponds to the crash-time. I'd look into /var/log/messages first, if there's nothing then check the other logs. Best regards, Ralf
last log thing is: Apr 13 00:15:29 linux su: (to nobody) root on none Apr 13 00:15:29 linux PAM-unix2[1215]: session started for user nobody, service su Apr 13 00:15:49 linux pppd[214]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0xbe magic=0xba891d2] Apr 13 00:15:49 linux pppd[214]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0xbe magic=0x6e7cdfb8] Apr 13 00:16:09 linux pppd[214]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0xbf magic=0xba891d2] Apr 13 00:16:09 linux pppd[214]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0xbf magic=0x6e7cdfb8] Apr 13 00:16:21 linux PAM-unix2[1215]: session finished for user nobody, service su
in messages. what does this mean? Nobody was working at this time!
thanks in advance
Andreas --_OPERAB__-x0s3yvauQ3lmYTFVC3nEYO--