kevin f oriordan zclecompsoccom hi gavin ubuntu feisty upgraded steps dapper kernel 261526386 dapper daemons would die without explanation might include ssh samba apache dovecot files varrun sometimes filled garbage noticeable etcmotd symlink varrunmotd garbage 12th october thing happened server coadmin daemons dead garbage files tmpfs varrun know script user running used vast amount memory problems believe running feisty kernel 262016server time dont think theres problem memory server possible option would use nontmpfs varrun could done editing etcinitdmountkernfssh dont see easier way gutsy currently running debian simple option etcdefaultrcs see though tmpfs isnt trusted potentially bigger problems hope thats help kev side note motd set etcinitdbootmiscsh see also etcmotdtail thu 07 aug 2008 080838 0000 ilug corruption issues varrun