From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 24 21:30:14 2005 Return-Path: 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 D10D716A4CE for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2005 21:30:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.192]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F2D243D39 for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2005 21:30:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from normal1.lists@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 58so307523wri for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2005 13:30:09 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=BosOB1qLVmfPygbpiN3x5I5SYLiukX5ufaJE37q2LUpACtYMCxxTxW9wrxviZdj50TAn64IhudFXYn6dtOu71uPJrmGY5i3fisyZlrLW2xzhqxnSJak+Mh425CkiGqOVX1axAR07CxoKYcoYvFIoTgCuN4y2j8n/5vSqqC8bZb4= Received: by 10.54.25.56 with SMTP id 56mr381756wry; Mon, 24 Jan 2005 13:30:09 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.54.2.67 with HTTP; Mon, 24 Jan 2005 13:30:09 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 13:30:09 -0800 From: gabriel To: Oliver Leitner In-Reply-To: <4726274099439676073@unknownmsgid> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <20050124211009.4825C43D48@mx1.FreeBSD.org> <4726274099439676073@unknownmsgid> cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: let me just throw this out there.. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: gabriel List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 21:30:15 -0000 I'll give that a shot. Thanks On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 22:19:21 +0100, Oliver Leitner wrote: > ok, now open some tail -f 's and stay logged in monitoring them continuously, > also let a packet capture program like tcpdum run, from that box, and from > some other box on your network as well, to see if anything unusual comes > through... > > also check if that reboot happens again, and if so, if it happens at exactly > the same time again... > > And then set all daemons, that didnt startup with the machine to debug mode > logging, also look if they have existing startup files (...sh in rc.d, maybe > enabled through rc.conf...) > > just general error searching routines... > > Greetings > Oliver Leitner > Technical Staff > http://www.shells.at > > On Monday 24 January 2005 22:14, gabriel wrote: > > Yeah I'm the only root there, the only user with wheel access isnt > > even used often for that same reason. I checked the logs and oddly > > enough, it was all just like "reboot", nothing interesting or > > anything, I checked all the ssh logs and everything looks okay. The > > weird thing is the deamons not starting, thats just odd. As a matter > > of fact, the first thing I checked was df -h to see if may be /var or > > / was full, but no, everything was good. Again.. weird. > > > > On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 22:04:57 +0100, Oliver Leitner wrote: > > > sounds like either powersurgery or you hit the wrong button to me... > > > also, are you the only one with root or power access to it? > > > > > > maybe some coworker stepped over the cable, or some other one thought he > > > could work with a bsd, and just did the shutdown -r now... > > > > > > in case you might wanna check all the logs, also the ones including > > > informations on who connected to that box. > > > > > > Also, its only a thought, but how much space is left on that system, do a > > > df -h and have a closer look... > > > > > > Greetings > > > Oliver Leitner > > > Technical Staff > > > http://www.shells.at > > > > > > On Monday 24 January 2005 22:02, gabriel wrote: > > > > Has it ever happened to anyone here where your computer (in this case, > > > > my gateway running ipfw+natd) just restarts out of nowhere. It isnt > > > > even a crash, it just restarted. Then when the computer came back up > > > > nothing was running, dhcpd, natd, cupsd everything was just not > > > > running. Weird. > > > > > > -- > > > By reading this mail you agree to the following: > > > > > > using or giving out the email address and any > > > other info of the author of this email is strictly forbidden. > > > By acting against this agreement the author of this mail > > > will take possible legal actions against the abuse. > > > _______________________________________________ > > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > > > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > -- > By reading this mail you agree to the following: > > using or giving out the email address and any > other info of the author of this email is strictly forbidden. > By acting against this agreement the author of this mail > will take possible legal actions against the abuse. > -- gabriel, Member of: FreeBSD-Announce FreeBSD-Hardware FreeBSD-Multimedia FreeBSD-questions