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Date:      Tue, 15 Apr 2003 08:50:36 -0400
From:      Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
To:        Jason Cave <cavej@charter.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD restarts on error.
Message-ID:  <3E9C001C.2090607@potentialtech.com>
In-Reply-To: <006c01c302ff$d5b68310$40237544@zeus>
References:  <002901c302fb$93b16830$40237544@zeus> <3E9B7BB5.1040304@potentialtech.com> <006c01c302ff$d5b68310$40237544@zeus>

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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" <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
>>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



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