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Subject: Re: Mysterious boot during the night
Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2001 03:28:34 +0100
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Greg writes:

> 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.

So what are the other reasons?  My mysterious reboot did indeed appear to take
place during a nightly cron job--some sort of default thing that sends me a
summary of system and security problems each morning (I didn't set it up, it was
just there).


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