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From: Jon Poland <polandj@monkey.org>
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Subject: Re: How to figure out who shutdown box (Kelly D. Grills)
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For me, those show up in /var/log/messages:
Jan 17 22:54:23 kmart reboot: rebooted by polandj

But nothing for the particular shutdown in question...

- JP

On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 10:24:17AM -0500, Jon Poland wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>   I operate a colo box running FreeBSD 6.0-SECURITY.  Yesterday the box
>> shutdown and powered off.  I didn't execute shutdown or halt, and I'm
>the
>> only user who can.  Here's what the logs tell me:
>>
>> /var/log/console.log:
>> Mar  3 11:24:29 kmart kernel: Shutting down daemon processes:
>>
>> /var/log/messages:
>> Mar  3 11:24:38 kmart syslogd: exiting on signal 15
>>
>> last: (the important lines)
>> reboot           ~                         Fri Mar  3 13:10
>> shutdown         ~                         Fri Mar  3 11:24
>>
>> I don't see anything in any of the logs like "rebooted by X", etc.
>>
>> I'm not exactly sure how this can happen and looking for ideas.
>>
>
> Where are you logging security messages? I believe the default is to
> /var/log/security
>
> Have a look at /etc/syslog.conf and syslog.conf(5)
>
> You should see messages such as this in your security log:
> Mar  1 15:21:38 srv1 shutdown: reboot by kdgrills: