From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 25 14:30: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from psiklone.dyndns.org (216-42-72-186.ppp.netsville.net [216.42.72.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F67137BBBD for ; Tue, 25 Apr 2000 14:29:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tms@psiklone.com) Received: from psiklone.dyndns.org (tms@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by psiklone.dyndns.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA50039; Tue, 25 Apr 2000 17:25:00 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from tms@psiklone.com) From: Tim To: Ben Williams , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: spontaneous (?) reboot Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 17:20:02 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain References: <3544.000425@home.com> In-Reply-To: <3544.000425@home.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00042517244901.50026@psiklone.dyndns.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Ben Williams wrote: > 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. I had something similar happen with a 4.0 system recently. Nothing in the logs and I hadn't changed anything except I added a new soundcard. I believe I was having power fluctuations. I don't have a voltmeter so I couldn't check, but I did catch the lights dimming in the same timeframe. I know you mentioned it's a remote system but maybe you could get someone to add a UPS. I didn't have enough cash for one but my problem seems to have cleared up(for now anyway). Good Luck, Tim S To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message