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Date:      Mon, 15 Sep 1997 23:29:05 +0200 (MESZ)
From:      Robert Eckardt <roberte@MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de>
To:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   A crash that isn't
Message-ID:  <199709152129.XAA04723@ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>

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Hi,

looking at lastlog today I was a bit surprised to find a machine have
"crashed".
[...]
roberte   ttyp0    134.147.6.3      Mon Sep 15 13:02 - 13:16  (00:13)
reboot    ~                         Mon Sep 15 12:47 
roberte   ttyp0    134.147.6.3      Mon Sep 15 12:47 - crash  (00:00)
shutdown  ~                         Mon Sep 15 12:40 
roberte   ttyp1    134.147.6.3      Mon Sep 15 12:22 - shutdown  (00:18)
[...]

In fact, the machine (running 2.2.2) was halted at 12:40.
After reboot at 12:46:20 I logged in as soon as the tty became available
(at 12:47) and obviously before the reboot was logged.

(It would be a new record to boot the machine in less than 1 min
 w/o additional entries in the logs -- esp. as it waits 30s for the
 tape to become ready. :-)

Can the late logging of reboot be responsible for this strange crash entry ?


Robert

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