From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 24 21:49:35 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 CBAA716A4CE for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2005 21:49:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp3.server.rpi.edu (smtp3.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AD9443D3F for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2005 21:49:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp3.server.rpi.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j0OLnX7U020533; Mon, 24 Jan 2005 16:49:34 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 16:49:32 -0500 To: gabriel , freebsd-questions From: Garance A Drosihn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-CanItPRO-Stream: default X-RPI-SA-Score: undef - spam-scanning disabled X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) Subject: Re: let me just throw this out there.. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 21:49:35 -0000 At 1:02 PM -0800 1/24/05, 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 isn't even a crash, it just restarted. Yes. Turned out to be an overheating problem. (one of the CPU fans was starting to fail -- and eventually it completely failed). >Then when the computer came back up nothing was running, dhcpd, >natd, cupsd everything was just not running. Weird. I don't remember this happening, but it might have in some cases. The machine in question does not run many services. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu