Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2001 13:00:52 +0100 From: Axel Scheepers <axel@axel.truedestiny.net> To: Anthony Atkielski <anthony@atkielski.com> Cc: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Mysterious boot during the night Message-ID: <20011117130052.B7072@mars.thuis> In-Reply-To: <02a701c16f5e$a9cb0c70$0a00000a@atkielski.com>; from anthony@atkielski.com on Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 12:54:44PM %2B0100 References: <020e01c16f42$14885c10$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20011117015632.B87944@xor.obsecurity.org> <02a001c16f53$215323b0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <3BF63DB1.1070008@owt.com> <02a701c16f5e$a9cb0c70$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
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On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 12:54:44PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote:
> Kent asks:
>
> > Which version of FreeBSD are you using?
>
> 4.3. The kernel is identical to GENERIC except that I disabled Ctrl-Alt-Del for
> boot.
You might consider upgrading to 4.4-STABLE or apply the appropiate security
patches for 4.3 since there are some vulnerabilities in it. Just use cvsup to
fetch the sources and do a make world in your /usr/src.
> The processor is supposedly an AMD Athlon XP at 1.5 MHz, although I have no easy
> way to confirm this. The machine is brand-new.
Try dmesg | less to get more info about your processor, it normally prints out
all the info you need (Stepping, speed etc.) Also a good place to see what
drivers are loaded.
> 47-48 degrees Celsius, as reported by the BIOS. The system temperature is 39
> degrees Celsius.
That's fairly normal, try looking at your /var/log/messages for strange things
just before the reoot, it might be hardware related and most of the time
syslogd will report something.
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Axel Scheepers
UNIX System Administrator
email: axel@axel.truedestiny.net
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