From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 17 16:45:04 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D856316A408 for ; Tue, 17 Apr 2007 16:45:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jeffrey@goldmark.org) Received: from out4.smtp.messagingengine.com (out4.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B22C913C484 for ; Tue, 17 Apr 2007 16:45:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jeffrey@goldmark.org) Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.internal [10.202.2.41]) by out1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49E7E217AC4; Tue, 17 Apr 2007 12:45:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.161]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Tue, 17 Apr 2007 12:45:05 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: 551ja1IfvqRM5FKCdWzlKhoffT1KkMnfOl27x+VPtZlx 1176828304 Received: from [10.1.10.136] (n114.ewd.goldmark.org [72.64.118.114]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7ED52B019; Tue, 17 Apr 2007 12:45:04 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <17956.62538.273110.585341@jerusalem.litteratus.org> References: <17956.62538.273110.585341@jerusalem.litteratus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Jeffrey Goldberg Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 11:45:02 -0500 To: Robert Huff X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Identifying cause of crash X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 16:45:04 -0000 On Apr 17, 2007, at 11:22 AM, Robert Huff wrote: > Jeffrey Goldberg writes: > >> I had a complete system crash this morning sometime shortly after >> 17/Apr/2007:08:51:22 -0500. (from my most active apache log). >> >> I can't seem to find any information whatsoever about the crash. > > Is there anything in /var/crash? Thanks! I didn't know about that place to look. Unfortunately there is nothing useful there either. There is only a file called minfree dated from January. minfree is a text file containing 2048 Is there some setting I should set so that in future crashes will be dumped there? Let me also add that the system is on an APC UPS and another machine that is on the same UPS logs no UPS events since the thunderstorms that hit the area on Friday. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberg http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/