On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 1:44 PM, Arun Khan <knura@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Is this server on the 'Net?
Are you 100% sure that nothing is wrong
with the hardware, especially the hard disk?
What kind of applications are you running on the system? Are these
apps. available to the target users?
On production systems, use an enterprise grade distro like CentOS
(equiv. RHEL) if you are unwilling to go with commercial RHEL or
Novell/SUSE.
The symptoms suggest that your machine has been cracked open.
Did you install the entire system on one partition? Where does your
important data reside on the file system tree e.g. /var/lib/mysql?
At a min. take the machine off line, boot with a Live/Rescue CD and copy
your important data to another location. You can use the BackTrack
LiveCD. It has a lot of security tools that might throw some light on
what happened.
In future, use an enterprise grade distro and plan your partition size
i.e. tell the distro installer what partitions to use for the various
sub trees of the file system.
To avoid further oops/trial and error I suggest you seek experienced
professional help.
