Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 14:34:50 -0500 From: "Peter Brezny" <pbrezny@purplecat.net> To: "Scott Nolde" <scott@smnolde.com>, "Peter Brezny" <pbrezny@purplecat.net> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: reboots every 24 hours Message-ID: <NEBBIGLHNDFEJMMIEGOOMEFFEIAA.pbrezny@purplecat.net> In-Reply-To: <20020212141939.O23791-100000@bsd.smnolde.com>
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So far, I haven't found anything out of the ordinary. The box is in a secure location with no access except by me. The box is pretty well locked down. the only port not completely closed to external traffic by ipfw is 22, and it's only open from 1 static ip, from my office. I didn't make myself clear the first time around. The box reboots exactly 24 hours after the _last_ reboot. Not at any particular time of day, but if I restart the box at 2pm, every 2pm (plus the time it takes to restart) the box will reboot again. It's bizarre. it's got to be a timer thing. But I haven't found anything yet. I'm the only person that has access to the box. Peter Brezny Skyrunner.net -----Original Message----- From: Scott Nolde [mailto:scott@smnolde.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 2:24 PM To: Peter Brezny Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: reboots every 24 hours Thus sayeth the previous author: >Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 14:01:13 -0500 >From: Peter Brezny <pbrezny@purplecat.net> >To: Scott Nolde <scott@smnolde.com> >Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: RE: reboots every 24 hours > >I spent some time in there, and didn't find anything. I'll definitely look >some more. > >It's a dell 2100/180 server. So I wouldn't really expect that kind of thing >to be going on. > >Any other ideas? > >Peter Brezny >Skyrunner.net > What time of day does this happen? If, as root, you do a crontab -l do you see anything out of the ordinary? Is it rebooting while running a particular job? Is there a funky script running in /etc/periodic? Is the night cleaner unplugging the server so he can power his floor polisher? If you umount all slices and umount / read-only and fsck the filesystems is there anything strange? >-----Original Message----- >From: Scott Nolde [mailto:scott@smnolde.com] >Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 1:46 PM >To: Peter Brezny >Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: Re: reboots every 24 hours > > >Thus sayeth the previous author: > > >Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 13:28:25 -0500 > >From: Peter Brezny <pbrezny@purplecat.net> > >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > >Subject: reboots every 24 hours > > > >I've got an old dell system that spontaneously reboots like clockwork, 24 > >hours for the time of the last reboot. > > > >I've just (yesterday) cvsup'd to 4.5-stable and made the world and kernel. > > > >Any ideas as to why this might be happening? > > > >Peter Brezny > >Skyrunner.net > > > >Have you checked the BIOS for an automatic reboot? I know some computer >manufacturers have this feature [sic]. Scott Nolde GPG Key 0xD869AB48 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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