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From: James Raynard <fqueries@parody.tecc.co.uk>
To: francis yeung <fyeung@fyeung5.netific.com>
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Subject: Re: can't shutdown 
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On Fri, 29 Dec 1995, francis yeung wrote:

> 	Due to some applications problems, I have to automatically
> 	reboot my BSD 2.0.5 system every 4 hours. I have setup
> 	a /bin/sh script to do "shutdown -r +1". The following 
> 	messages were displayed after 1 minutes:
> 
> 
> 	Dec 27 20:31:32 sysx shutdown: reboot by root:
> 	Dec 27 20:31:35 sysx syslogd: exiting on signal 15
> 
> 
> 	and then the system just hung there. It did not go into
> 	disk resync and reboot at all.

Is there anything relevant in /var/log/messages?

James

Segmentation fault (core dumped): cannot find file '.signature'