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Date:      Tue, 15 May 2001 11:03:41 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Marc Silver <marcs@draenor.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Did FreeBSD crash or am I missing something?
Message-ID:  <20010515110341.D59553@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010514204231.G351@draenor.org>; from marcs@draenor.org on Mon, May 14, 2001 at 08:42:31PM %2B0200
References:  <20010514204231.G351@draenor.org>

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On Monday, 14 May 2001 at 20:42:31 +0200, Marc Silver wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am currently running FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE and up until today, everything
> has been fine with this machine.
>
> Today, the machine rebooted for no apparent reason (it's a remotely
> administered machine) and there's no information in /var/log/messages
> that tells me why the box rebooted.  All I have is this:
>
> reboot           ~                    Mon May 14 15:50
> marcs            ttyp2    x.x.x.x     Mon May 14 10:25 - crash (05:25)
> marcs            ttyp2    x.x.x.x     Mon May 14 09:10 - crash (06:40)
> marcs            ttyp2    x.x.x.x     Mon May 14 09:07 - crash (06:42)
> marcs            ttyp2    x.x.x.x     Mon May 14 07:58 - crash (07:52)
> uberg            ttyp6    x.x.x.x     Sun May 13 12:29 - crash (1+03:20)
>
> My question is this.  Did this machine crash, or could it simply have
> rebooted perhaps due to something else...?
>
> I do not believe this machine has been compromised as it's not running
> _any_ remote services other than ssh.

About the only way you can find out why a system like this resets is
to enable dumping and take a look at the dump.

Greg
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