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Subject: Re: Why is my server rebooting/hanging EXACTLY every 14 days?
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At 09:04 4/28/2003, Bill Moran, wrote:
>On Sunday 27 April 2003 02:12 am, W. D. wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>> 
>> For some reason, my FreeBSD 4.4 server seems to reboot itself
>> every other week at the exact same time.
>> 
>> I've checked into any CRON jobs and don't see anything that
>> cycles every 14 days.
>> 
>> Has anyone seen anything like this before?
>> 
>> Thanks for any light you can shed. 
>
>Unfortunately, there's not a lot of information here.
>You may have to configure your system to do crash dumps in order
>to get enough information for anyone to help you.

Thanks a bunch, Bill for your reply!

I looked at the handbook and it tells about analysing a crash dump,
but not much about setting one up.  Could you please point me
to some documentation on this?