Coming home from a 2 day business trip, I find all the services, Apache, Email, SSH, Nodeworx, etc. on my Redhat 9 server non responding. The server pinged fine.
After having Sago reboot my server everything worked fine, however now I would like to find out what the heck happened, and Sago told me to look in the /var/log folder for clues.
Being a Windows geek more than a Linux geek, I hope that someone can give me a hint as exactly where to look and for what. I mean which file or subfolder.
I did ask this to Sago but they coughed back their standard “Server not a managed server, so give us $50 bucks and we’ll tell you!”.
Probably the first thing I would do is try to determine what time the services went down. That way, you have a general starting point when looking through all the various logs. Look for huge jumps in timestamps. Your best bet would be to look through the httpd logs first (/var/log/httpd/transfer.log), since an active web server will probably have log data every couple seconds.
Just looked in that folder and there are no files with the name transfer.log, only access_log, error_log, ssl_error, suexec.log, ssl_request_log, ssl_scache.dir, and ssl_scache.pag