System crashes after boot
The failure appears at these two lines
Sep 5 14:40:45 plato portsentry[1165]: adminalert: ERROR: No UDP ports supplied in config file. Aborting
Sep 5 14:40:45 plato portsentry[1165]: adminalert: ERROR: could not go into PortSentry mode. Shutting down.
If this doesn't reveal anything, can I be certain the problem is in theOS? If so is there an easy way to replace it?
Any help would be appreciated
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The 2.4 kernel hasn't changed since January but the 2.6 kernel changes quite frequently. The latest one (2.6.12.3-linode14) became available on 20th July.
If you are using 2.6, make sure you haven't inadvertently recreated some or all of /lib/tls.
hth
I still can't 'ping' the system. What should I look for?
A clue might be that the host was recently change to non FQDN.
Many thanks.
Since portsentry produced error messages at boot, try disabling it and rebooting. If the problem isn't portsentry, check to see if your eth0 config got broken during the system failure.