From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 6 7: 7:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cs.selu.edu (cs.selu.edu [147.174.59.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2FB137B408 for ; Mon, 6 May 2002 07:07:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cs.selu.edu (cs.selu.edu [147.174.59.5]) by cs.selu.edu (8.11.6/8.11.2) with ESMTP id g46E6gC24214; Mon, 6 May 2002 09:06:42 -0500 Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 09:06:42 -0500 (CDT) From: Jason P Holland To: Vishwas Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: my FreeBSD-4.5 gets rebooted everyday at 3:03am !! In-Reply-To: <20020506191417.E39626-100000@PKI.ecom.tifr.res.in> Message-ID: 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 you could try and run the job manually, watch and see if something obvious shows up. Jason > 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 > -- .-. __| |__ [__ __] | | | | | | '-' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message