Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 14:23:35 -0500 (EST) From: Scott Nolde <scott@smnolde.com> To: Peter Brezny <pbrezny@purplecat.net> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: reboots every 24 hours Message-ID: <20020212141939.O23791-100000@bsd.smnolde.com> In-Reply-To: <NEBBIGLHNDFEJMMIEGOOOEFEEIAA.pbrezny@purplecat.net>
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Thus sayeth the previous author: >Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 14:01:13 -0500 >From: Peter Brezny <pbrezny@purplecat.net> >To: Scott Nolde <scott@smnolde.com> >Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: RE: reboots every 24 hours > >I spent some time in there, and didn't find anything. I'll definitely look >some more. > >It's a dell 2100/180 server. So I wouldn't really expect that kind of thing >to be going on. > >Any other ideas? > >Peter Brezny >Skyrunner.net > What time of day does this happen? If, as root, you do a crontab -l do you see anything out of the ordinary? Is it rebooting while running a particular job? Is there a funky script running in /etc/periodic? Is the night cleaner unplugging the server so he can power his floor polisher? If you umount all slices and umount / read-only and fsck the filesystems is there anything strange? >-----Original Message----- >From: Scott Nolde [mailto:scott@smnolde.com] >Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 1:46 PM >To: Peter Brezny >Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: Re: reboots every 24 hours > > >Thus sayeth the previous author: > > >Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 13:28:25 -0500 > >From: Peter Brezny <pbrezny@purplecat.net> > >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > >Subject: reboots every 24 hours > > > >I've got an old dell system that spontaneously reboots like clockwork, 24 > >hours for the time of the last reboot. > > > >I've just (yesterday) cvsup'd to 4.5-stable and made the world and kernel. > > > >Any ideas as to why this might be happening? > > > >Peter Brezny > >Skyrunner.net > > > >Have you checked the BIOS for an automatic reboot? I know some computer >manufacturers have this feature [sic]. Scott Nolde GPG Key 0xD869AB48 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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