Nathan & Jamie,
Thanks for your responses -- I'm not convinced it was iptables either
-- I've never seen a crash during a 'make' either -- but that's when it
happened. It could have been someone carelessly watering plants as far
as I know.. :)
I reached the guy who's the normal sysadmin (who can't help today), and
he thinks that it's *possible* that the make started probing kernel
modules, and that's what did it.
It's a fairly vanilla Debian box... not overclocked... the only quirky
module is mod_perl...
Anyway, I just arranged to get keys -- I'm heading over now, and I'll
post a followup as soon as I can.
Thanks again,
-Scott
