I'll answer that myself, since I just got to the root of the problem. I just got contacted by the hosting company, and they made a mistake. So tl;dr I just have to wait until things get back to normal.
In the meantime, I would be curious though : how *do* you read system logs in chroot ?
Cheers,
Niki
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On Sunday, April 12, 2020 10:06 AM, kikinovak <kikinovak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
> This morning my day began quite badly, since my main production server wasn't responsive anymore. For public hosting I'm using a "Dedibox Pro" server at the french provider Online that's recently been acquired by Scaleway. I'm currently managing half a dozen public servers at that provider, all running CentOS 7.
> For debugging purposes, Online's web console enables you to boot the machine into a live rescue system, in that case Ubuntu 18.04.
> Once I managed to connect via SSH to the live system, here's what I did.
> Mount the root partition :
> # mount /dev/sda2 /mnt
> Mount the /boot partition :
> # mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot
> Then :
> # mount --rbind /proc /mnt/proc
> # mount --rbind /dev /mnt/dev
> # mount --rbind /sys /mnt/sys
> And then I chroot into the system :
> # chroot /mnt /bin/bash
> I had networking in the chroot environment. I tried to disable a handful of services like fail2ban and firewalld to begin with, but systemctl won't run in a chroot. So what I did was simply remove everything related to fail2ban and firewalld.
> Next thing was to look at the system logs to know what went wrong on startup, but I don't know how to do that from within a chroot.
> Any suggestions?
> Cheers,
> Niki
> PS : sorry for bad formatting. Since the unresponsive server is also running all my mails, I had to setup a Protonmail account to post on this list.
>
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