Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 11:10:12 -0500 From: "Martin Gignac" <freebsd@mobilitylab.net> To: Erik Paulsen Skålerud <erik@pentadon.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: SV: Unwanted 24 hour cyclic reboot... Message-ID: <20020308111012.M73879@mobilitylab.net> In-Reply-To: <00ab01c1c6ba$409e7df0$0a00000a@erik> References: <20020308103148.M26661@mobilitylab.net> <00ab01c1c6ba$409e7df0$0a00000a@erik>
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Oh, yes. That was the first thing I checked. I didn't see anything out of place there. Sorry I forgot to mention it. Anyway, if there had been something weird in the crontab, it should have ended up in the "catchall" syslog as all other cronjobs appear in the syslog when they execute. -Martin > Have you tried looking at root's crontab? (crontab -l as root) > > Erik Paulsen Skaalerud > > -----Opprinnelig melding----- > Fra: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG] På vegne av Martin > Gignac Sendt: 8. mars 2002 16:32 Til: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Emne: Unwanted 24 hour cyclic reboot... > > Hi, > > After an uneventful reboot I performed last week, one of my FreeBSD > servers > has begun rebooting every 24 hours. I have looked at the logs and > have not noticed error messages pertaining to this weird behavior. I > have also found since then that if I reboot the machine myself, the > machine will reboot on its own exactly 24 hours after _my_ manual > reboot, and will continue to do so every 24 hours. I'm pretty much > at a loss here as to what is going on. I put a "catchall" line in my > /etc/syslog.conf: > > *.* all.log > > in the hopes that I could find some helpful message indicating why > the machine was rebooting, but to no avail. As far as I can tell, no > 'reboot' command is issued before the machine restarts (at least > there is no indication in syslog). The fact that this occurs exactly > (plus or minus 5 minutes) every 24 hours really baffles me. > > Any suggestions? Is there anywhere else I can check on the system to > try and find helpful error/informational messages? > > Thanks, > -Martin > > P.S. The server is running FreeBSD-4.4 STABLE. > > -- > Open WebMail Project (http://openwebmail.org) > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Open WebMail Project (http://openwebmail.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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