Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2001 10:02:55 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: Anthony Atkielski <anthony@atkielski.com>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Mysterious boot during the night Message-ID: <20011118100255.B72712@monorchid.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20011117015632.B87944@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <020e01c16f42$14885c10$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20011117015632.B87944@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On Saturday, 17 November 2001 at 1:56:32 -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 09:30:06AM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: >> I notice that my system booted mysteriously during the night. How can I find >> out what happened? Are system crashes logged somewhere? > > Spontaneous reboots almost always turn out to be the result of > hardware failure. Not often enough to warrant a generalization of this nature. You'll note also that a surprising number of spontaneous reboots take place during nightly cron jobs; there's more than just "hardware failure" behind that. 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
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