Hi Andreas,

the nobody-entry in the log means, that some regular tasks where
performed. In order to be more secure it is common to perform as many
tasks a possible with an unprivileged account. The least account of
these is nobody, so this is used in your case. That's probably not the
reason for your system-crash. Run last to find out, how long the system
was up, then try to find something in the log files, that corresponds to
the crash-time. I'd look into /var/log/messages first, if there's
nothing then check the other logs.

Best regards,

Ralf

>
>last log thing is:
>Apr 13 00:15:29 linux su: (to nobody) root on none
>Apr 13 00:15:29 linux PAM-unix2[1215]: session started for user nobody, service su
>Apr 13 00:15:49 linux pppd[214]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0xbe magic=0xba891d2]
>Apr 13 00:15:49 linux pppd[214]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0xbe magic=0x6e7cdfb8]
>Apr 13 00:16:09 linux pppd[214]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0xbf magic=0xba891d2]
>Apr 13 00:16:09 linux pppd[214]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0xbf magic=0x6e7cdfb8]
>Apr 13 00:16:21 linux PAM-unix2[1215]: session finished for user nobody, service su
>
>in messages. what does this mean? Nobody was working at this time!
>
>thanks in advance
>
>Andreas
>--_OPERAB__-x0s3yvauQ3lmYTFVC3nEYO--
>

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