From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 24 13:35:28 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 D2D7537B401 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 13:35:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns1.webwarrior.net (overlord-host99.dsl.visi.com [209.98.86.99]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CAD843F3F for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 13:35:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from friar_josh@webwarrior.net) Received: by ns1.webwarrior.net (Postfix, from userid 1003) id 42D38253B0; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 15:35:24 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 15:35:24 -0600 From: Josh Paetzel To: Steve Warwick Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Freebsd - restarting itself - followup Message-ID: <20030324213524.GC716@ns1.webwarrior.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-33.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT, QUOTE_TWICE_1,REFERENCES,REPLY_WITH_QUOTES,USER_AGENT_MUTT 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 On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 01:09:19PM -0800, 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? No. If it's restarting, there's a reaon. > > - 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. > Is it possible the box was damaged in transit? > - 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) > So heat related issues are possible, also bad ram, video, or PSU. I've seen all 4 of those cause spontanious reboots with nothing in the logs. > - As far as I can tell the box has not been exploited -- if someone we > restarting the machine via software then / would dismount correctly. > I'm pretty sure that if I had root on a box I could figure out a way to make it reboot as you are describing. I'm not saying that's feasable, but it could happen. > > Further thoughts, suggestions? > > TIA > > > Steve I'd also agree with the others who said to suspect the power condition at your colo. Josh To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message