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Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 13:06:25 -0600 (MDT)
From: Doug Russell <drussell@saturn-tech.com>
To: Jim Durham <durham@jcdurham.com>
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Subject: Re: Sudden Reboots
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On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, Jim Durham wrote:

> The reboots started out happening at 5.15 pm or so. I had them unplug the
> server completely from AC and restart it and now it's happening withing a few
> minutes of 12:40pm every day.
>
> The 'last' command output is the only thing showing anything log-wise. Look at
> this:
>
> reboot           ~                         Mon Oct  4 12:33
> reboot           ~                         Sun Oct  3 12:37
> reboot           ~                         Sat Oct  2 12:42
> reboot           ~                         Fri Oct  1 12:45

That is strange....
What is that machine doing at that time?  Does it start a backup job, or
any kind of maintenance at that time?  Anything at all?

I'd monitor what the heck the machine is doing to some remote machine and
see what goes on when it dies.

Later.......						<Doug>