Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 09:57:29 -0600 From: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <chad@shire.net> To: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What are the likely causes of reboots? Message-ID: <BE884A19-DF18-4A39-BD6C-3BE97D9EA329@shire.net> In-Reply-To: <F0EAE3DB1691D5877B62DBA2@utd59514.utdallas.edu> References: <F0EAE3DB1691D5877B62DBA2@utd59514.utdallas.edu>
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On Oct 10, 2005, at 9:54 AM, Paul Schmehl wrote: > Since I only got one answer, I'm resending this in the hope that > others will respond. > > I maintain a small hobby website running on FreeBSD 5.4. I'm > pasting in the dmesg.boot at the end of this post so you can see > the hardware. > > In the past week, the server has rebooted three times, and I can't > find any explanation for it in the logs. I *suspect* these might > be "mistakes" by the ISP's techs (or possibly the UPS isn't really > working as it should), but I want to rule out other possible > explanations before I talk to them. > > What are the possible causes of spontaneous reboots? And what > artifacts would be left behind that might indicate the source of > the problem? Are there any utilities I can use to monitor the > system and possibly discover the source of the problem? Any > special files or logs in unusual places that might give me a clue? > Set it up to record the kernel crash dump when it crashes so you can see what it says... <http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/ kerneldebug.html> --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider chad@shire.net
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