Broadcast Message from root () "Communication has been lost"

[Johnson Punniyalingam]

Hi All,

Keep recieving this error message while was connected to the server , what cause this problem..? I just rebooted the HPUX server 11.0
model 9000/800/N4000-55

"Broadcast Message from root () Sat Oct 4 05:49:35...
"Communication has been lost"

pls advice on this,

Thanks,
Johnson

[Duncan Edmonstone]

Johnson,

Difficult as this isn't a standard error message - I suspect it is coming from a script somewhere using the wall command ("man wall" for details on this), so it may be some script which is being called to check something.

All I can suggest is that you start by looking at root's crontab using:

crontab -l root

And look through the scripts called from there to see if any of them are responsible for the message.

HTH

Duncan

[Matti_Kurkela · Accepted solution]

Was that the entire message?

Some UPS monitoring programs send messages like that if they cannot monitor the state of the UPS device. Is this server receiving power from a UPS device?

MK

[Johnson Punniyalingam]

Thanks, Matti

Rgds,
Johnson