From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 21 17:23:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AE8B37BA79 for ; Sun, 21 May 2000 17:23:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id JAA77401; Mon, 22 May 2000 09:53:27 +0930 (CST) Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 09:53:27 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Khairuddin Abdul Ghani Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mysterious shutdowns Message-ID: <20000522095327.C77130@freebie.lemis.com> References: <00b401bfc354$31b72aa0$6f1f7d80@phoenix> <20000522093128.A77130@freebie.lemis.com> <015201bfc383$2143d950$6f1f7d80@phoenix> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <015201bfc383$2143d950$6f1f7d80@phoenix> Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] On Sunday, 21 May 2000 at 17:16:58 -0700, Khairuddin Abdul Ghani wrote: > On Sunday, May 21, 2000 5:01 PM, Greg Lehey wrote: >>> eg. last | grep shutdown: >> >> Please don't wrap these lines. >> >>> shutdown ~ Fri May 19 15:09 >>> flash ttypm 194.133.37.38 Fri May 19 15:04 - shutdown (00:05) >>> misterio ttyp5 62.11.132.164 Fri May 19 15:01 - shutdown (00:07) >>> di0lam0r ttypb a-na12-61.tin.it Fri May 19 12:44 - shutdown (02:24) >>> xgen ttyp6 res-3617.usc.edu Fri May 19 10:59 - shutdown(04:09) > > Oops, my bad. :) More likely this one. It's still broken. > X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 > X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 >>> /var/log/messages: >>> May 21 05:21:47 sage syslogd: exiting on signal 15 >> >> It would be interesting to know what version of FreeBSD you're >> running. We had a problem with symptoms like this in -CURRENT >> recently, but if you're running -CURRENT, you should be discussing the >> problem on the FreeBSD-current mailing list, not here. > > I'm currently running 4.0-RELEASE, on a Pentium III 500 machine with > 512MB of RAM. The machine usually has a load of about 450 processes > running, and on average 800 kbit/s traffic. I'm thinking of updating > to STABLE though, since I get the impression that that's the best > for system stability. It's certainly a good idea to upgrade to -STABLE, but it's unlikely that that would solve this problem. It really looks as if somebody is running shutdown. Try moving it out of harm's way and seeing if the shutdowns continue. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message