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Subject: Re: Mysterious boot during the night
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Anthony Atkielski wrote:

> Agreed, but is there any place in the system where I mind find a clue as to the
> type of failure encountered?
> 
> The machine has been running for many days with no failures, mostly churning
> through SETI@home, so I'd expect fundamental processor problems or
> incompatibilities to have shown up fairly quickly.  My guess would be an
> intermittent soft failure of some component, i.e., a temporary network anomaly
> or something that produced a situation leading to a crash, but I'm not sure how
> to isolate it.  Hopefully it will be a once-in-a-lifetime occurrence.


Which version of FreeBSD are you using? Based on your setiathome time, 
it has to be a fairly slow machine. I am curious about the rest of the 
system. On the older systems, it could be anything from power supply to 
cpu fan.

Kent


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