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Subject: Re: Quite Stumped here, need suggestions
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> Where to look? What to try? I am truly stumped here.
at logs. it look like SOMETHING (or someone ;) initiates such shutdown.
i don't remember case where FreeBSD would shutdown itself the way you said 
- cleanly, closing all programs etc - in case of panic/kernel error.