From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 30 22:45:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7673214BE1 for ; Tue, 30 Mar 1999 22:45:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (ident=ben) by scientia.demon.co.uk with local (Exim 2.12 #4) id 10S994-0003xP-00; Wed, 31 Mar 1999 01:46:14 +0100 (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 01:46:14 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Spidey Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Mysterious reboots... Message-ID: <19990331014614.A15151@scientia.demon.co.uk> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Spidey wrote: > Sometimes the machine simply reboots. X does not shut down, filesystems do > not dismount correctly, _but_ there is an entry in wtmp: > > spidey@freed [01:39pm] spidey$ last reboot > reboot ~ Tue Mar 30 12:40 > [...] > > I did _not_ call this reboot with any command that I know of. I may be wrong, but looking at the source and the timestamps of those "reboot" entries in wtmp, they seem to be inserted as the box is coming back up, after the reboot. "shutdown" will mark a clean shutdown, I beleive, "reboot", as it says, indicates the machine is booting up again. -- Ben Smithurst ben@scientia.demon.co.uk send a blank message to ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk for PGP key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message