From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 12 11:26: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smnolde.com (att-98-60-141.atl.mediaone.net [24.98.60.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E97637B405 for ; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 11:25:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from bsd ([192.168.10.7]) by smnolde.com with esmtp (Exim 3.30 #1) id 16aiWf-000Bxv-00; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 14:23:37 -0500 Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 14:23:35 -0500 (EST) From: Scott Nolde To: Peter Brezny Cc: Subject: RE: reboots every 24 hours In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20020212141939.O23791-100000@bsd.smnolde.com> 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 Thus sayeth the previous author: >Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 14:01:13 -0500 >From: Peter Brezny >To: Scott Nolde >Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: RE: reboots every 24 hours > >I spent some time in there, and didn't find anything. I'll definitely look >some more. > >It's a dell 2100/180 server. So I wouldn't really expect that kind of thing >to be going on. > >Any other ideas? > >Peter Brezny >Skyrunner.net > What time of day does this happen? If, as root, you do a crontab -l do you see anything out of the ordinary? Is it rebooting while running a particular job? Is there a funky script running in /etc/periodic? Is the night cleaner unplugging the server so he can power his floor polisher? If you umount all slices and umount / read-only and fsck the filesystems is there anything strange? >-----Original Message----- >From: Scott Nolde [mailto:scott@smnolde.com] >Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 1:46 PM >To: Peter Brezny >Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: Re: reboots every 24 hours > > >Thus sayeth the previous author: > > >Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 13:28:25 -0500 > >From: Peter Brezny > >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > >Subject: reboots every 24 hours > > > >I've got an old dell system that spontaneously reboots like clockwork, 24 > >hours for the time of the last reboot. > > > >I've just (yesterday) cvsup'd to 4.5-stable and made the world and kernel. > > > >Any ideas as to why this might be happening? > > > >Peter Brezny > >Skyrunner.net > > > >Have you checked the BIOS for an automatic reboot? I know some computer >manufacturers have this feature [sic]. Scott Nolde GPG Key 0xD869AB48 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message