From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 26 8:52:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A75637B401 for ; Sat, 26 Oct 2002 08:52:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net (scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.49]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFE2343E3B for ; Sat, 26 Oct 2002 08:52:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from walterk1@earthlink.net) Received: from user-0cal9lv.cable.mindspring.com ([24.170.166.191] helo=earthlink.net) by scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 185TEq-0006GA-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org; Sat, 26 Oct 2002 08:52:36 -0700 Message-ID: <3DBABA48.52A91834@earthlink.net> Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2002 10:52:40 -0500 From: Walter X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77C-CCK-MCD {C-UDP; EBM-APPLE} (Macintosh; U; PPC) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org" Subject: Re: 4.6.2 spurious reboot, fwiw References: <3DBA9F2A.B53419B@earthlink.net> <20021026145223.GA19530@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 08:56:58AM -0500, Walter wrote: > > .. my > > FBSD 4.6.2 system rebooted a little after 2 last night. > > Do you have a UPS? Sounds to me like you had a momentary dip in the > mains voltage. PC's can be very sensitive to that sort of thing, and > will reboot themselves when other equipment (clocks, radios, videos) > just carry on reguardless. Yes, I do. So, I checked it by pulling its pull out of the wall (while the HD was not active, no log-ons, etc.). The computer stopped. It looks like my UPS battery is dead. A similar entry in the log appeared after reboot as appeared for 2 am. Good call. > Of course, simply by running FreeBSD you've foxed 99% of the script > kiddies and nasty-ware out in the wild. But that's no cause for > complacency: any one fancy a dose of the Scalper worm? > > Cheers, > > Matthew > Better securing my computer is in the plans, but after I reinstall FBSD after claiming the 600MB of the HD I left for DOS and dual-boot. After getting FBSD running, I can't think of a reason to hold onto DOS any more. Thanks. Walter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message