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Janos Dohanics wrote:

> Last night one of my systems stopped, it's FreeBSD 7.4-STABLE, i386.
> In /var/log/messages I found this:
> 
> Jun 10 23:11:59 mail1 acpi: resumed at 20110610 23:11:59
> Jun 10 23:11:59 mail1 postfix/postfix-script[50651]: stopping the Postfix
> mail system Jun 10 23:11:59 mail1 postfix/master[92051]: terminating on
> signal 15 Jun 10 23:11:59 mail1 ntpd[746]: ntpd exiting on signal 15
> Jun 10 23:11:59 mail1 syslogd: exiting on signal 15
> 
> I guess the entry "acpi: resumed at 20110610 23:11:59" has to do
> something with the fact that the system had stopped - would some please
> comment on this? Does this entry indicate a hardware failure?
> 

Only a wild guess off the top of my head, but look at your BIOS and disable 
any power management sleep and/or suspend modes. Laptops can sleep, probably 
not a good idea for servers. Only a hasty guess, but maybe somewhere to 
start.

-Mike