From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 15 15:38:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA00157 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 15:38:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from panda.hilink.com.au (panda.hilink.com.au [203.8.15.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA00146 for ; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 15:37:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from danny@localhost) by panda.hilink.com.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA26896; Tue, 16 Sep 1997 08:37:38 +1000 (EST) Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 08:37:38 +1000 (EST) From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" To: Robert Eckardt cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A crash that isn't In-Reply-To: <199709152129.XAA04723@ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 15 Sep 1997, Robert Eckardt wrote: > Hi, > > looking at lastlog today I was a bit surprised to find a machine have > "crashed". > [...] > roberte ttyp0 134.147.6.3 Mon Sep 15 13:02 - 13:16 (00:13) > reboot ~ Mon Sep 15 12:47 > roberte ttyp0 134.147.6.3 Mon Sep 15 12:47 - crash (00:00) > shutdown ~ Mon Sep 15 12:40 > roberte ttyp1 134.147.6.3 Mon Sep 15 12:22 - shutdown (00:18) > [...] > > In fact, the machine (running 2.2.2) was halted at 12:40. > After reboot at 12:46:20 I logged in as soon as the tty became available > (at 12:47) and obviously before the reboot was logged. > > (It would be a new record to boot the machine in less than 1 min > w/o additional entries in the logs -- esp. as it waits 30s for the > tape to become ready. :-) > > Can the late logging of reboot be responsible for this strange crash entry ? Looks like it to me. Question is, how come you managed to log in before the ~reboot entry was added. /* Daniel O'Callaghan */ /* HiLink Internet danny@hilink.com.au */ /* FreeBSD - works hard, plays hard... danny@freebsd.org */