jimitris wrote:

> I had a curious problem today and I can't seem to find any useful
> information.
> We have a mail server running OpenSuse 10.3 and after some extended
> network downtime (local network was ok but our link to the outside world
> was down),I tried logging in via ssh to the machine but it hang for ages
> after I input the username and password.
>
> I tried logging in to the machine directly but got a 60 second timeout
> message, so I was forced to reboot it.
>
> Has anyone come across something similar?
>
> Is there any other info you would like me to provide?

If after rebooting all came to normal, just don't worry. I also have seen
that when Internet link goes down (dsl) the servers are a bit more
irresponsive. Well, I guess is quite normal, just think on ntpd (NTP time)
daemon, Postfix and the rest of services trying to go online and failing.

Just review the logs (/var/log/warn, /var/log/messages
and /var/log/mail.info) and check that all things are playing o.k.

Greetings,

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Camaleón