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On 6/4/03 at 8:13 PM Noor Dawod wrote:

|Hello,
|
|I'm having a problem in one of the FreeBSD boxes that I manage. All of a
|sudden, and for no particular reason, the machine just reboots abruptly.
|When it loads up again, I cannot see an indication that there's anything
|wrong in the configuration.
|
|By the way, the machine is running like this for few months, and no
|changes were made lately. Machine has 2GB RAM, RAID-5 disk array and a
|Xeon 933Mhz CPU. There's enough space on disk and more free RAM to drive
|5 desktop computers.
|
|Anyone got an idea how to debug the problem? and better, how to resolve
|and fix it?
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My first guesses would be power or hardware problems.  


>> the machine is running like this for few months

Like what?  rebooting repeatedly?