Hi Folks,

    I recently ran across an interesting situation that I wanted to share this group. A customer of ours called us,

letting us know that our server in their data center was beeping. We tried to ssh into the box, but kept getting

connection refused. I asked the customer to hook up a monitor and keyboard to the box, and try a simple TTY.

Sure enough, he was unable to log in. It turns out that the hard drive that holds the OS (Crux Linux) failed.

     Now, that in and of itself is not very interesting. What is interesting is that our software kept running even

without the OS drive functioning. Our software resides on a separate drive. Since it was already loaded into

memory and almost never needs to touch the OS drive, it just kept going…and going….and going….

Tal