From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 20 09:30:13 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA19170 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 20 Apr 1996 09:30:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.calweb.com (mail.calweb.com [165.90.138.20]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA19165 for ; Sat, 20 Apr 1996 09:30:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from calweb.calweb.com (calweb.calweb.com [165.90.138.3]) by mail.calweb.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA25310; Sat, 20 Apr 1996 09:27:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web1.calweb.com (rdugaue@web1.calweb.com [165.90.138.10]) by calweb.calweb.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA10638; Sat, 20 Apr 1996 16:27:22 GMT Date: Sat, 20 Apr 1996 09:29:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Robert Du Gaue To: Christoff Snijders cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Spontaneous reboots In-Reply-To: <31782A54.41C67EA6@portal.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Serious, however, are the reboot problems, which are occurring with > /etc/daily (run by cron at 02:00), which I have not (yet) modified from > its original form. Specifically, I think the problem is with find. I had this exact same problem a long time ago. Are you running popper? I found that when the 'find' part of the /etc/daily is running and popper requests come in, good bye system. It was very easily reproducing (just run /etc/daily anytime on heavily popped system). I finally moved all popper stuff to it's own machine (which is recommended anyways) and commented out parts of /etc/daily. > > >From time to time, even when I perform a find manually (though more > rarely by this method than by cron)--say, for example, > > find / -name text.txt -print > > the machine will pause for a moment or two, and then reboot itself. Yes! You got it! I'm really curious to know if you do have popper (the qualcom version) running. The messages I got just before these reboots were always a popper request, and sometimes when I was at the machine during the reboot popper would be identified as the culprit. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Du Gaue - rdugaue@calweb.com http://www.calweb.com President, CalWeb Internet Services Inc. (916) 641-9320 --------------------------------------------------------------------------