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Subject: Re: Spontaneous reboots
To: hjcs@portal.ca (Christoff Snijders)
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 1996 20:00:52 +0200 (MET DST)
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In-Reply-To: <31782A54.41C67EA6@portal.ca> from "Christoff Snijders" at Apr 20, 96 00:05:40 am
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Christoff Snijders writes:
>
>> From time to time, even when I perform a find manually (though more
> rarely by this method than by cron)--say, for example,
>
> find / -name text.txt -print
>
> the machine will pause for a moment or two, and then reboot itself.

It might be interesting to see if this will happen if you type

 find / -print

If so, the last name before the blackout might give you some
indication of the area in which the problem lies.

Greg