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Date:      Fri, 18 Jan 2002 14:42:14 +1300 (New Zealand Daylight Time)
From:      Juha Saarinen <juha@saarinen.org>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Spontaneous reboot mystery
Message-ID:  <Pine.WNT.4.43.0201181437570.1452-100000@den2>

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I have a remote server that has started rebooting itself for no apparent
reason. It looks like a controlled shutdown:

# last
juha             ttyp0    saarinen.org     Thu Jan 17 15:15   still logged
in
reboot           ~                         Thu Jan 17 15:03
juha             ttyp0    saarinen.org     Thu Jan 17 13:14 - crash
(01:48)
reboot           ~                         Thu Jan 17 13:01
juha             ttyp1    saarinen.org     Wed Jan 16 15:12 - 15:12
(00:00)
juha             ttyp0    saarinen.org     Wed Jan 16 08:05 - crash
(1+04:56)
reboot           ~                         Wed Jan 16 05:58
juha             ttyp1    saarinen.org     Mon Jan 14 14:36 - 15:09
(1+00:33)
juha             ttyp0    saarinen.org     Mon Jan 14 10:40 - crash
(1+19:17)
reboot           ~                         Sun Jan 13 17:34
reboot           ~                         Sat Jan 12 02:58
reboot           ~                         Thu Jan 10 21:13
reboot           ~                         Wed Jan  9 17:42
reboot           ~                         Tue Jan  8 11:22
reboot           ~                         Tue Jan  8 10:59
reboot           ~                         Tue Jan  8 09:36
reboot           ~                         Mon Jan  7 21:00
reboot           ~                         Mon Jan  7 20:10
reboot           ~                         Mon Jan  7 16:23
juha             ttyp0    saarinen.org     Mon Jan  7 11:30 - 11:39
(00:08)
reboot           ~                         Mon Jan  7 11:29
juha             ttyp0    saarinen.org     Mon Jan  7 07:57 - crash
(03:32)
reboot           ~                         Sun Jan  6 17:51
reboot           ~                         Sun Jan  6 16:19
reboot           ~                         Sun Jan  6 15:54
reboot           ~                         Sun Jan  6 15:23
reboot           ~                         Sun Jan  6 00:22
reboot           ~                         Sat Jan  5 14:39
reboot           ~                         Sat Jan  5 07:58
juha             ttyp0    saarinen.org     Fri Jan  4 17:25 - 17:28
(00:03)
reboot           ~                         Fri Jan  4 05:18
reboot           ~                         Thu Jan  3 20:59
reboot           ~                         Thu Jan  3 18:37
juha             ttyp0    saarinen.org     Thu Jan  3 16:16 - crash
(02:20)
reboot           ~                         Thu Jan  3 16:16
reboot           ~                         Wed Jan  2 09:44
reboot           ~                         Wed Jan  2 03:58


... but I can't find anything that could cause it to reboot at irregular
intervals.

# uname -a
FreeBSD www.searchnow.co.nz 4.2-STABLE FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE #0: Mon Dec  4
15:18:45 NZDT 2000
root@www.searchnow.co.nz:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SEARCHNOW  i386

Could it be some kind of remote 'sploit?

-- 
Juha
Take off every sig!


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