Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 13:20:49 -0800 From: "Derrick Ryalls" <ryallsd@datasphereweb.com> To: "'Steve Warwick'" <ukla@attbi.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Freebsd - restarting itself - followup Message-ID: <002b01c2f24b$411269f0$0200a8c0@bartxp> In-Reply-To: <BAA4B3FF.46A4%ukla@attbi.com>
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> Hi All, > > Thanks to all of you that replied so promptly to my question. > However I think I failed to outline the situation clearly > enough so with the responses so far in mind... > > Question was: Is it possible for FreeBSD to shut itself down > and restart for no reason? > > - The "new server in question has been running at another > facility without any problems for about 4 months so I am > assuming it is "burned in" and stable. > > - The logs (var/log/messages, /var/log/httpd-error.log) do > not show any obvious issues such as kernel panics, just a > hard restart (/ not dismounted > correctly) > > - As far as I can tell the box has not been exploited -- if > someone we restarting the machine via software then / would > dismount correctly. > Right now I have the exact same thing happening to one machine. It is located offsite (naturally) and about 10 days ago it had a random shutdown (did not come back up) followed by a random reboot a couple days later. It had been running 50-60 days previous. The shutdown occurred just after business hours, the reboot at about 4am. I now have the machine emailing me at specific intervals to try to narrow things down. I have a couple ideas for the both of us. One is that maybe the machine is plugged into a faulty power line, something that is borking the current enough to cause reboots. Another is that maybe the PSU is dying prematurely (3mos old for me). I wish us both good luck. -Derrick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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