From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 18 12:41: 1 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailgate.jadeb.com (mailgate.jadeb.com [62.49.93.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AEF437B409 for ; Sat, 18 May 2002 12:40:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jadeb.com (firewall.jadeb.com [192.168.254.2]) by mailgate.jadeb.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B09F846B1C for ; Sat, 18 May 2002 20:43:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: from nettle by jadeb.com with local (RemoteNB 1.54beta1) for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; 18 May 2002 20:40:40 +0000 Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 20:40:40 GMT From: Daniel Barron To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: After 170 days uptime, now reboots every few hours Message-ID: <47f6ba384b.nettle@jadeb.com> X-Organization: Jades Domain User-Agent: Messenger-Pro/2.60 (RemoteNB/1.54beta1) (RISC-OS/4.27) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 After someone helped me port DansGuardian from Linux to FreeBSD - I fell in love with its reliablity and stability and logical filesystem layout. I found the package management very good as well. About 175 days ago I moved my mail/dns/web server to a FreeBSD 4.4 from Linux. I, essentially, installed FBSD and booted it once and have never had to reboot or had any problems with it for 170 days. But a couple of days ago it rebooted without reason. I saw nothing in the messages or any other log. A day later and the rebooting came every few hours. Nothing gets logged. Sometimes it does not reboot, I just can't ssh or imap or web to it. But I can ping it. I always keep the box (cel766 10Gb 256Mb) on a UPS. One clue might be that it started happening the day it moved house so I suspect the HD is on its way out. Still under its warranty as well. I am no FBSD expert but I'm used to coding on nix boxes. My question is; how do I work out whats wrong? What tools on FBSD can I use to diagnose a rebooting (with nothing being logged) machine? It has no floppy drive so I can't use my usual memory checking and diagnosis software I usually use. -- Daniel Barron (Visit http://dansguardian.org/ - True web content filtering for all) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message