From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 21 23:20:42 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 AF6EB16A4BF for ; Thu, 21 Aug 2003 23:20:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2514E43F93 for ; Thu, 21 Aug 2003 23:20:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from topaz-out (owt-207-41-94-233.owt.com [207.41.94.233]) by rutger.owt.com (8.11.6p2/8.9.3) with ESMTP id h7M6Kd204674; Thu, 21 Aug 2003 23:20:39 -0700 From: Kent Stewart To: zhuravlev alexander , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 23:20:38 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: <20030822053607.GA11852@ns.ulstu.ru> <200308212247.15595.kstewart@owt.com> <20030822061107.GC16813@ns.ulstu.ru> In-Reply-To: <20030822061107.GC16813@ns.ulstu.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="koi8-r" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200308212320.38776.kstewart@owt.com> Subject: Re: strange reboots 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: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 06:20:43 -0000 On Thursday 21 August 2003 11:11 pm, zhuravlev alexander wrote: > On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 10:47:15PM -0700, Kent Stewart wrote: > > On Thursday 21 August 2003 10:36 pm, zhuravlev alexander wrote: > > > [ please CC me, because I am not a list subscriber ] > > > > > > Hi! > > > > > > We encounter with strange casual reboots of our server. > > > Does anyone know any tactics of investigation why > > > this happens. > > > > > > [ns:/u/zaa]>uname -rs > > > FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE > > > > For starters, make sure you have all of the security holes fixed. > > There is a list of advisories on the bottom right side of > > http://www.freebsd.org/ > > System are up to date > [ns:/u/zaa]>uname -v > FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE #0: Sat Aug 16 14:42:35 MSD 2003 > root@ulstu.ru:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/NS > > > If you are up todate, then it is a function of noticing what is > > going on when it reboots. You usually have a clue but seeing it can > > be a problem. > > I suppose, reboot can cause incorrect work of ftp server. (we use > standart out of the box ftpd). > Maybe we should switch to another ftp server. > Any recommendations which server should we choose? > One thing is to make sure you have a good boot. You don't want the message about "/ was not properly dismounted" to be present. I don't have any other ideas. What I have seen on here are mostly things that were hardware. Cron would startup a job and the hardware would heat up or something and cause the system to panic. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html