From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 24 11:36:56 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B17437B401 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 11:36:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.gmx.net (imap.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4B1BE43F3F for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 11:36:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from blueeskimo@gmx.net) Received: (qmail 17073 invoked by uid 0); 24 Mar 2003 19:36:52 -0000 Received: from i216-58-29-174.gta.igs.net (HELO ?216.58.29.174?) (216.58.29.174) by mail.gmx.net (mp019-rz3) with SMTP; 24 Mar 2003 19:36:52 -0000 Subject: Re: Freebsd - restarting itself?! From: Adam To: Steve Warwick Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1048534610.15312.123.camel@jake> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 Date: 24 Mar 2003 14:36:50 -0500 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-19.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,PLING_QUERY, QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,REPLY_WITH_QUOTES, USER_AGENT_XIMIAN autolearn=ham version=2.50 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 14:20, Steve Warwick wrote: > Hi All, > > Is it possible for FreeBSD to shut itself down and restart for no reason? > > My machine was restarted last night and my hosting company claims they did > not touch the server or have any problems. This has been going of for a few > months now -- intermittent restarts that no one claims responsibility for. > > This is a new machine with the latest OS (4.7) so I can't blame a faulty > power supply or something like -- I have more fans than Britney in the > server, for HD and CPU so I don't think it's a temp problem. Have you checked your logs? Are there any indications of something going terribly wrong? Maybe someone has remotely exploited your box and is rebooting it just to be a bastard? New machines are not always perfect. In fact, I consider them untested. I've installed plenty of machines at work that didn't work right out of the box. So, hardware problems cannot be ruled out just by saying the machine is new. -- Adam To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message