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From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Jacob Frelinger <jolly@thecoffinclub.com>
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Subject: Re: Bizzare problem..
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On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Jacob Frelinger wrote:

> I have a new current system that is having the strangest problem.
> using vi or its clones often abruptly powers the system down, no panics,
> no syslog messages.  the computer is an ABIT BP6 w/ 2 500 mhz cellerons
> (NOT OVERCLOCKED), two harddrives, a cdrom drive and 256M ram.

You aren't using a Linux version of vi, are you?  It so happens a common
freebsd system call maps to linux reboot() ....

Doug White                    |  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu     |  www.FreeBSD.org


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