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Date:      Fri, 26 May 2000 12:17:37 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To:        Khairuddin Abdul Ghani <abdulgha@usc.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: mysterious shutdowns (cont.)
Message-ID:  <20000526121737.A8451@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <009f01bfc731$4beea840$6f1f7d80@phoenix>; from "Khairuddin Abdul Ghani" on Fri May 26 09:41:52 GMT 2000
References:  <009f01bfc731$4beea840$6f1f7d80@phoenix>

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In the last episode (May 26), Khairuddin Abdul Ghani said:
> Hello. Here's the followup to the mysterious clean shutdowns
> that the machine was experiencing before.
> 
> Looks like the last downtime was caused by those weird shutdowns again:
> reboot           ~                         Fri May 26 08:15
> shutdown         ~                         Fri May 26 08:14
> reboot           ~                         Fri May 26 05:39
> shutdown         ~                         Fri May 26 05:33

Hmm. If a shutdown record got added, check /var/log/messages for a line
like 

May 20 12:37:42 machine1 shutdown: reboot by user1:

At least you'll find out who shut it down.

> I checked each shutdown instance against process accounting,
> and I found that each would contain at least the following
> (in sequence):

Did you find any "shutdown" or "reboot" commands in the accouting logs?

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@emsphone.com


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