From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 5 16:52:08 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 59EEA16A41C for ; Tue, 5 Jul 2005 16:52:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cburchell@muttart.org) Received: from mx.muttart.org (mx.muttart.org [66.18.201.230]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2681843D46 for ; Tue, 5 Jul 2005 16:52:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cburchell@muttart.org) Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5.7226.0 Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 10:52:06 -0600 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: How to diagnose crashes? Thread-Index: AcWBfSbLBTVjYpQrS9ycve26kNNCCAABHXeA From: "Chris Burchell" To: Subject: How to diagnose crashes? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2005 16:52:08 -0000 My FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE box seems to be spontaneously restarting from time to time. I have not yet contacted the colo facility to determine if it's a power issue, but wonder if anyone can help me out in how to diagnose whether or not it's a server crash and not a power problem. Where should I look for tips / hints that might help me determine the cause of a crash that forced a reboot? Thanks, Chris