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Date:      Mon, 22 May 2000 09:53:27 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Khairuddin Abdul Ghani <abdulgha@usc.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: mysterious shutdowns
Message-ID:  <20000522095327.C77130@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <015201bfc383$2143d950$6f1f7d80@phoenix>
References:  <00b401bfc354$31b72aa0$6f1f7d80@phoenix> <20000522093128.A77130@freebie.lemis.com> <015201bfc383$2143d950$6f1f7d80@phoenix>

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On Sunday, 21 May 2000 at 17:16:58 -0700, Khairuddin Abdul Ghani wrote:
> On  Sunday, May 21, 2000 5:01 PM, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> wrote:
>>> eg. last | grep shutdown:
>>
>> Please don't wrap these lines.
>>
>>> shutdown         ~                         Fri May 19 15:09
>>> flash            ttypm    194.133.37.38    Fri May 19 15:04 - shutdown (00:05)
>>> misterio         ttyp5    62.11.132.164    Fri May 19 15:01 - shutdown (00:07)
>>> di0lam0r         ttypb    a-na12-61.tin.it Fri May 19 12:44 - shutdown (02:24)
>>> xgen             ttyp6    res-3617.usc.edu Fri May 19 10:59 - shutdown(04:09)
>
> Oops, my bad. :)

More likely this one.  It's still broken.

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>>> /var/log/messages:
>>> May 21 05:21:47 sage syslogd: exiting on signal 15
>>
>> It would be interesting to know what version of FreeBSD you're
>> running.  We had a problem with symptoms like this in -CURRENT
>> recently, but if you're running -CURRENT, you should be discussing the
>> problem on the FreeBSD-current mailing list, not here.
>

> I'm currently running 4.0-RELEASE, on a Pentium III 500 machine with
> 512MB of RAM.  The machine usually has a load of about 450 processes
> running, and on average 800 kbit/s traffic. I'm thinking of updating
> to STABLE though, since I get the impression that that's the best
> for system stability.

It's certainly a good idea to upgrade to -STABLE, but it's unlikely
that that would solve this problem.  It really looks as if somebody is
running shutdown.  Try moving it out of harm's way and seeing if the
shutdowns continue.

Greg
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