From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 7 12:30:48 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 498C237B401 for ; Sat, 7 Jun 2003 12:30:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from out001.verizon.net (out001pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 653E243FDD for ; Sat, 7 Jun 2003 12:30:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com ([141.149.47.46]) by out001.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.33 201-253-122-126-133-20030313) with ESMTP id <20030607193046.PXAM12592.out001.verizon.net@mac.com>; Sat, 7 Jun 2003 14:30:46 -0500 Message-ID: <3EE23D61.5080902@mac.com> Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2003 15:30:41 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030529 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: george donnelly References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out001.verizon.net from [141.149.47.46] at Sat, 7 Jun 2003 14:30:46 -0500 cc: FreeBSD Q's Subject: Re: crash analysis 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: Sat, 07 Jun 2003 19:30:48 -0000 george donnelly wrote: > I found my freebsd 4.7 server in a state of complete shutdown this morning. > I looked through the logs but did not find an obvious reason. > > Can anyone suggest where I should start looking to find out why the machine > shut down? Read "man crash" and enable system crash dumps so that you'll get a lot more information if the problem happens again. -Chuck