From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 17 15:32:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from monorchid.lemis.com (monorchid.lemis.com [192.109.197.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4229837B416 for ; Sat, 17 Nov 2001 15:32:57 -0800 (PST) Received: by monorchid.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 5AF7C786E3; Sun, 18 Nov 2001 10:02:55 +1030 (CST) Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2001 10:02:55 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Anthony Atkielski , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Mysterious boot during the night Message-ID: <20011118100255.B72712@monorchid.lemis.com> References: <020e01c16f42$14885c10$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20011117015632.B87944@xor.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011117015632.B87944@xor.obsecurity.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday, 17 November 2001 at 1:56:32 -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 09:30:06AM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: >> I notice that my system booted mysteriously during the night. How can I find >> out what happened? Are system crashes logged somewhere? > > Spontaneous reboots almost always turn out to be the result of > hardware failure. Not often enough to warrant a generalization of this nature. You'll note also that a surprising number of spontaneous reboots take place during nightly cron jobs; there's more than just "hardware failure" behind that. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message