Help - can't login to DA anymore - nor change pass thorugh ssh

[stepan.hluchan]

HI there,

I have a problem, approx an hour ago or so, the mailserver etc stopped working. To look what's up, I wanted to login to DA, but found out that my admin/passwd combo don't work anymore.

logged in through SSH (root) - this still works. However, I can't restart any services anymore.

checked the /var/log files... which don't show anything strange for the moment.

Tried to change the pass of user 'admin' and tried to login to DA again, but without luck.

Anyone any idea what I could do?

thanks

Stepan

 

[scsi]

Why cant you restart services? Maybe your server got hacked. Maybe your drive is full.

Check /var/log/exim/mainlog

Which other services dont work?

 

[nobaloney]

Also check logs in /var/log/directadmin to see why the DirectAdmin login doesn't work.

Jeff

 

[quadium]

last time that occurred to me it was a full system drive due to a backup multiplication problem.

 

[Marshall]

Run df -h as root to see the current disk usage and find out if your root partition filled up. Also check if your tmp partition is full (if you have it mounted as a separate partition) since this being full can also cause problems.

If it is full, clean out any unneeded files to free up enough space to get everything working again then start going through directories to find out where all the usage is occurring at. A good tool for this is the find command, you can run this to find where the larger files are then remove/investigate the files in the list it gives, some examples being

Find all files on the root drive bigger than 1 GB
find / -type f -size +1G

Find all files on the root drive bigger than 100MB
find / -type f -size +100M