From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 25 10: 3:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.tn.home.com (ha1.rdc1.tn.home.com [24.2.7.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6AC137BDFC for ; Tue, 25 Apr 2000 10:03:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from williamsl@home.com) Received: from RELIABLE ([24.4.115.31]) by mail.rdc1.tn.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.00 201-229-116) with ESMTP id <20000425170318.LIIK3723.mail.rdc1.tn.home.com@RELIABLE> for ; Tue, 25 Apr 2000 10:03:18 -0700 Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 13:03:27 -0400 From: Ben Williams X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.39) Personal Organization: Williams Enterprises X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <3544.000425@home.com> To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: spontaneous (?) reboot Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I remotely administer a FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE #0: Fri Mar 10 15:52:31 EST 2000 machine that rebooted apparently without direct command or any faults I know to look for. There is nothing out of the ordinary in /var/log/messages prior to the reboot and I had set up custom logfiles of `vmstat -w 5` and `netstat -w 5`. The only thing logged out of the ordinary was to the netstat log which seems to end in a string of ASCII 1's ("^@"). This is the second time in the past week this has happened. How can I go about finding the cause for these reboots? This is a gateway+sendmail box for a client so I need to get to the bottom of this ASAP. TIA, Ben Williams. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message