From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 16 11:36:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.i-clue.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A274037B405 for ; Mon, 16 Jul 2001 11:36:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from so@server.i-clue.de) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.i-clue.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id UAA06200; Mon, 16 Jul 2001 20:44:21 +0200 Message-ID: <3B5334B2.65887DE7@i-clue.de> Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 20:38:42 +0200 From: Christoph Sold Reply-To: so@server.i-clue.de X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [de] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ryan Thieme Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Post crash analysis References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Ryan Thieme schrieb: > > I've recently been placed in a position of senior sys admin for our > departmental shell server, but my expertise lies in high speed circuit > troubleshooting, so I could use a hand. > > We had our server crash this afternoon and I'd like to figure out why, > however, I don't really know where to start looking. > > Should I be looking in or for a specific file? > Check /var/log/messages for first hints pointing you in the right direction. Be preparet for an enormous amount of information: wield your more, less and grep tool before ;*) Spontaneous reboots may happen because of bad hardware or flakey power supply, too. Even cleaning personnel is known to cause reboots ;) HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message