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Cannot access server manager out of the blue HELP!!!!

Offline Matt

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Cannot access server manager out of the blue HELP!!!!
« on: June 13, 2007, 11:26:21 AM »
Hi

I came into the office this morning and found that I cannot access tye server manager at all, I just get an internal server error displayed on the browser.  

Also when I try and send emails I also get this error message,



when I restarted the server it took an absolute age to restart and seemed to hang for ages when starting the network.

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An error occured sending mail: Unable to connect to SMTP server.  The server may be down or may be incorrectly configured.


Could someone tell me how to access to the server log files from the command line please???

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« Reply #1 on: June 13, 2007, 12:15:51 PM »
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cd /var/log/
mc
and press F3 to read the file
"It should just work" if it doesn't report it. Thanks!

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« Reply #2 on: June 13, 2007, 01:00:29 PM »
I had a server from a client that behaved the same way.
As i recall it had something to do with certificates.
That were faulty generated after a year of doin the job...

Dit you update everything with yum?

And then signal-event post-upgrade and signal event-reboot

Dirk

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« Reply #3 on: June 13, 2007, 02:54:55 PM »
The only think I can think was I just did un update with yum last week via the sever manager control panel.

Sorry I am not that techie so could you explain And then signal-event post-upgrade and signal event-reboot to me

Thanks

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« Reply #4 on: June 13, 2007, 03:01:48 PM »
Use putty (google for it) and enable ssh and allow connection with normal password (or something like that) in server-manager pannel (under remote i think).
Then you'll have to enter your server's ip and login as root and enter your password (in putty).
This will get you to console where you're supposed to type those commands in.

I hope that you understand (i'm not at my server and can't check exactly... sorry).
"It should just work" if it doesn't report it. Thanks!

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« Reply #5 on: June 13, 2007, 03:55:23 PM »
bpivk rofl :D he can't access the server manager.

Go to the physical machine and login as root.

Type "signal-event post-upgrade"
w8 till its finished.
Type "signal-event reboot"
w8 till the server reboots.

And go to https://<ip of the server>/server-manager

Dirk

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« Reply #6 on: June 13, 2007, 04:07:21 PM »
This is a reply to Byte which has deleted his post which only moderator's can.


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and enable ssh and allow connection with normal password (or something like that) in server-manager pannel


He needs the server-manager panel to enable ssh if it isnt enabled.

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I came into the office this morning and found that I cannot access tye server manager at all


or am i missing something.

Dirk
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« Reply #7 on: June 13, 2007, 04:56:55 PM »
okepc didn't notice that. Sorry  :lol:
I was at work when i wrote that post and didn't read to the first post. He just asked how to do that. :)

I feel so ashamed now.  :oops:
"It should just work" if it doesn't report it. Thanks!

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« Reply #8 on: June 14, 2007, 01:13:49 PM »
Matt you have a solution yet?