Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 11:39:28 -0500 From: "JJB" <Barbish3@adelphia.net> To: "John DeStefano" <deesto@yahoo.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: reboot record information Message-ID: <MIEPLLIBMLEEABPDBIEGEEPIFKAA.Barbish3@adelphia.net> In-Reply-To: <20040213155654.64692.qmail@web40606.mail.yahoo.com>
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When an FBSD system crooks, and It reboots it's self, very seldom does any of issued problem messages have time to be posted completely before the rug is pulled out from under the log write process by the reboot occurring. All you can find out from the logs is yes indeed it did reboot. You are SOL, just like the rest of us when this happens to us. -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of John DeStefano Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 10:57 AM To: Barbish3@adelphia.net; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: reboot record information JJB <Barbish3@adelphia.net> wrote: >All reboot messages go to /var/log/messages. The message file is >archived, so just go the /var/log directory and look at your message >files and look for msgs before the boot msgs of that date. That's what I thought too. However, according to my system status message this morning: "Local system status: 3:13AM up 3 days, 11 mins, 0 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00" My /var/log/messages still contains messages older than 3 days ago; it's from where I pulled the log lines from my original post. As you can see, there's no sign of a cause for reboot there. -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of John DeStefano Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 10:17 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: reboot record information I was interested to find from a system mail this morning that my system had been rebooted three days ago. As far as I was aware, the last reboot was about two months ago. The following lines in /var/log/messages give me a clue that the reboot happened after "Feb 10 02:51:52": Feb 10 02:51:52 zurg inetd[608]: netbios-ns/udp: bind: Address already in use [note: the "netbios-ns/udp" line is a system message that I get every 10 minutes... haven't been able to figure that one out either] Feb 10 03:02:37 zurg syslogd: kernel boot file is /boot/kernel/kernel Feb 10 03:02:37 zurg kernel: Copyright (c) 1992-2003 The FreeBSD Project.... But there's no sign of what happened to cause the reboot, or how it was done. Is there another log file that would store this information? I am mostly concerned because I'm fairly certain this reboot was not performed at the console: it was either a system reaction to a problem, or somebody poking around where they shouldn't be... Thanks, ~John --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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