Topic: Server Crashing/losing Configs (Don't know what is going on)

[Doug Ardans]

I just recently installed SME V5.0 on my system,

p3 933mhz
256+megs of ram
15gig 7200 U/ATA 66 HDD  (IBM)
Netgear FX310TX
Motherboard = ASUS P3V
52X Generic CDRom
1.44 Floppy

and about 2 days after I installed it all the services just went kaput. PPTP is giving some wierd IP Address, and Apache, or FTP, or SSH is not working at all.

I have not even figured out what it is.

I am running the server as a stand-alone, No DHCP,
w/5 ibays, 5 or 6 users
have the primary redirected to an IBay.
1 of the IBays is running a friends whole site, it has CGI/PHP/SSI (ON) it has a thing called IkonBoard running on it, and his site.
1 of the IBays is running a backup of my website CGI/blah (ON)
1 of the IBays is running another friends site without anything on it. CGI (OFF) for now.
the other 2 are just there 1 is running a photo album. and the other will be mine but have only uploaded and worked with everyone else's stuff.

What can I do about the thing from crashing(well I should say changing confs, shuting down and not restarting, and even when I do restart all the services they still do not work.

PLEASE HELP I am just gonna reinstall again, and backup what I got on there.

[Mike]

This is just a guess, as I'm not running the same version as you. When things go wrong with my httpd, and I can't fix it, I do the following and it usually works:

/sbin/e-smith/expand-template /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd-e-smith restart

[Doug Ardans]

I just reinstalled it and am not gonna F with it again like I did. I edited the actual config files instead of making templates. I wish I know how to make a template?

Oh well I hope it doesn't do it again..

[Patrick B]

Check out this link:

http://www.e-smith.org/custom/

Good luck.

regards,
Patrick