I can ping my server but nothing else works
962245Sep 14 2012 — edited Sep 27 2012Hello Forum,
I'm a Linux newbie. I'm a new IT manager at my small business. I've inherited a Solaris server with absolutely no documentation. This server hosts a couple of websites and also a mysql database which is accessed via a java program. Everything was running smoothly for about a year after the last employee and we didn't use the server much since it was doing everything we wanted.
However about yesterday I realized I had some problems:
1)The web sites it hosted are no longer accessible ( the addresses "Failed to connect to server" ).
2)There is a java program which connects to a mysql database hosted on the server and when I attempt the run the software I get a "Network Connection Failure: Connection refused" error.
3) I am able to ping the machine XX.XX.XXX.XX successfully
4) I am unable to ssh into the machine "ssh: connect to host XX.XX.XXX.XX port 22: Connection refused"
I had no idea what was wrong. I was hoping a simple reboot was necessary (I've never rebooted a Solaris machine before). I fear my machine was hacked and taken over.
I requested remote access via a KVM from our co-location hosts. When I logged in I saw some text. So it seems for some reason the server tried to reboot on it's own and there were some issues. I think the import parts are that it said "the following files in / differ from the boot archive: /etc/rtc_config...." and "system/boot-archive:default failed fatally". I took a screen shot if that is necessary for you to view but it doesn't seem that there is a way to attach or embed files in this forum.
After reading here: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19082-01/819-2379/ggngq/index.html
I used the command: # svcadm clear system/boot-archive
After that command my system booted up into a gui. I thought my webserver would be running and mysql would be running since I assumed those programs start up on boot.
However after boot I was still only able to ping.. everything was still failing in the way it failed before.
Please help me.
Any ideas on: What cause my problem? Was cleaning the boot-archive the correct move? Where to go from here?
Edited by: SolarisNewbie on Sep 27, 2012 1:35 PM