Server stop responding, where to look to know what happened?

Posted by Cid on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by Cid
Published on 2010-04-24T02:56:48Z Indexed on 2010/04/24 3:03 UTC
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I have a server that has been running for well over 5 months and suddently it stop responding. I couldn't ssh into it or anything else so I decided to reboot it and the reboot fixed it.

I'm trying to figure out what happened and I'm not sure exactly where to look. I started to look in /var/log but there are tons of files in there and I'm not sure which one I should pay attention to. I'm slowly going through each one of them but if anyone can point me in the right direction, it would be great.

Thanks!

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