From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 15 05:50:42 2003 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 CFA0537B401 for ; Tue, 15 Apr 2003 05:50:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (pa-plum1b-122.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.161.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11DA843FBF for ; Tue, 15 Apr 2003 05:50:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com (working [172.16.0.95]) h3FCoaJP017389; Tue, 15 Apr 2003 08:50:36 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Message-ID: <3E9C001C.2090607@potentialtech.com> Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 08:50:36 -0400 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030301 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jason Cave References: <002901c302fb$93b16830$40237544@zeus> <3E9B7BB5.1040304@potentialtech.com> <006c01c302ff$d5b68310$40237544@zeus> In-Reply-To: <006c01c302ff$d5b68310$40237544@zeus> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD restarts on error. 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: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 12:50:43 -0000 [Please keep postings on the list] Jason Cave wrote: > Is there any logs I can view. I dont have access to the console > at the moment. /var/log/messages will have information in it if the system paniced. > Jason Cave > cavej@charter.net > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bill Moran" >>Jason Cave wrote: >> >>>Hopefully someone will know why this happens. Whenever I get an error >>>compiling or any kind of error, FreeBSD will suddenly kill all > > connections > >>>to it and reboot. I am currently using FreeBSD 4.8. >>> >>>Anyone else encounter this? >> >>Can you see the console? Are you getting panic messages? >> >>When the system panics (major system failure) it reboots after a few > > seconds > >>(I believe this behaviour can be configured, but that's the default) >> >>Compiles are notorious for exposing marginal hardware. I would consider > > using > >>utilities like memtest and cpuburn to validate the reliability of your >>hardware. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com