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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To: Anthony Atkielski <anthony@atkielski.com>
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Subject: Re: Mysterious boot during the night
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On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 11:32:10AM +0100, 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?

In general there's no reliable way for failing hardware to report its
failure mode correctly.  e.g. run one of the memory testers in the
ports collection to check for failing RAM, but remember that if the
tester doesn't find a memory problem it doesn't mean you don't have
one.

Kris

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