From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 6 6:48:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from PKI.ecom.tifr.res.in (PKI.ecom.tifr.res.in [158.144.64.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D92F37B401 for ; Mon, 6 May 2002 06:48:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (vtp@localhost) by PKI.ecom.tifr.res.in (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g46DoPF40715; Mon, 6 May 2002 19:20:25 +0530 (IST) (envelope-from vtp@PKI.ecom.tifr.res.in) Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 19:20:25 +0530 (IST) From: Vishwas To: Bill Moran Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: my FreeBSD-4.5 gets rebooted everyday at 3:03am !! In-Reply-To: <3CD675A4.50403@potentialtech.com> Message-ID: <20020506191417.E39626-100000@PKI.ecom.tifr.res.in> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 Thanks Bill: Yes Bill, you are right. The time in /etc/crontab is set for 3:01am for daily jobs. And after checkups the system is getting rebooted at 3:03!! But how will I go to the root of the problem ? Is there any way to find out the cause ? Even i tried to analyse the log files.../var/log/messages, last etc. but not getting a clue ..... :-( I think you are getting my problem ! best regards, Vishwas. On Mon, 6 May 2002, Bill Moran wrote: > Vishwas wrote: > > Hello All: > > My FreeBSD-4.5 reboots automatically everynight at 3:03. I have > > checked the cron entries. I haven't done any modifications to the system > > after installation. > > > > Am I the one who has been singled out by FreeBSD or someone else is also > > there ? :-)) > > This comes up every so often. 3:00AM is when certain system maintenance tools > run, and this is likely causing your problem. > First thing to do is to disable the daily run in /etc/crontab and see if the > problem goes away. If it does, you've found the culpret and the solution is > a little more involved. > Hopefully you can afford some testing time on the machine. The first thing to > do is to cvsup and update your system to the latest stable, in case it's a > problem that's already been fixed: > http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/cutting-edge.html > Enable kernel crash dumps as described here: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug.html > And analyze what's going on. If you don't understand kernel debugging, post > the results of a gdb session to the list asking for advice. Michael Lucas > wrote an excellent article on this for onlamp.com, I suggest you read that > as well. > > -- > Bill Moran > Potential Technology > http://www.potentialtech.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message