From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 19 16:24:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from monorchid.lemis.com (monorchid.lemis.com [192.109.197.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4216537B416 for ; Mon, 19 Nov 2001 16:24:11 -0800 (PST) Received: by monorchid.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 2C4F4786E1; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 10:54:09 +1030 (CST) Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 10:54:09 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Gavin Atkinson Cc: Anthony Atkielski , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Mysterious boot during the night Message-ID: <20011120105409.A52512@monorchid.lemis.com> References: <005901c170a2$1cd5efc0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF 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 On Monday, 19 November 2001 at 10:20:16 +0000, Gavin Atkinson wrote: > On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > >> Which version of the OS is the version that would be distributed, say, on boxed >> CDs, like the version I initially bought at the store? I presume from what I've >> read that -CURRENT is more volatile than STABLE; how do both of these relate to >> RELEASE (if there is such a thing--my system mentions RELEASE on the >> screensaver). > > Hmm... a discussion is in progress on stable@ about the possibility that > the demon screensaver (possibly amongst others) can cause crashes and > spontanious reboots. > > http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=637980+0+archive/2001/freebsd-stable/20011111.freebsd-stable The symptoms described there are completely different. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message