From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 24 13:16:45 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C9D237B401 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 13:16:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from chimera.noanet.net (chimera.noanet.net [66.119.192.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE3EE43F75 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 13:16:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mksmith@noanet.net) Received: from noanet.net (mks733.mks.noanet.net [64.81.189.2]) by chimera.noanet.net (8.12.8/8.12.2) with SMTP id h2OLGZ8u085138; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 13:16:36 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 13:16:35 -0800 Subject: Re: Freebsd - restarting itself - followup Content-Type: text/plain; delsp=yes; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v551) Cc: To: Steve Warwick From: "Michael K. Smith" In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.551) X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-21.6 required=5.0 tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT, REPLY_WITH_QUOTES,USER_AGENT_APPLEMAIL autolearn=ham version=2.50 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) 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 Hello Steve: On Monday, March 24, 2003, at 01:09 PM, Steve Warwick wrote: > Hi All, > > Thanks to all of you that replied so promptly to my question. However I > think I failed to outline the situation clearly enough so with the > responses > so far in mind... > > Question was: Is it possible for FreeBSD to shut itself down and > restart for > no reason? > > - The "new server in question has been running at another facility > without > any problems for about 4 months so I am assuming it is "burned in" and > stable. > > - The logs (var/log/messages, /var/log/httpd-error.log) do not show any > obvious issues such as kernel panics, just a hard restart (/ not > dismounted > correctly) > > - As far as I can tell the box has not been exploited -- if someone we > restarting the machine via software then / would dismount correctly. > > > Further thoughts, suggestions? I would seriously suspect my provider at this point. Are they supplying you with AC power straight from the wall, or do you have a UPS of some sort in line between the power source and your server? If you're running straight, you may want to consider getting a UPS that has either SNMP or syslog facility so you can trap out any alarms if/when the AC from the wall fails. Mike ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Michael K. Smith NoaNet 206.219.7116 (work) 206.579.8360 (cell) mksmith@noanet.net http://www.noanet.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message