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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
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