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From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>
To: Antonio Kless <antoniok.spb@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Received signal 15; terminating.
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Antonio Kless <antoniok.spb@gmail.com> writes:

> Received signal 15; terminating.
>
> - this is the last line in /var/log/auth.log before my 7.2-STABLE suddenly
> shut down. Something with "signal 15" also was in /var/log/messages, but I
> can't copy it exactly.
>
> What could produce halting of system with this symptoms, if I sure that
> nobody could just type "shutdown" or "halt" in root console?

Signal 15 is SIGTERM.  That's the signal normally used by kill(1).  
In practice, you really only see it coming from user actions of some sort.

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Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area
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