> 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
Almost certainly heat related. Even really good cpu/ps fans in a clean environment will only last a year or so running 24/7. Most just weren't built with this kind of use in mind. I made a habit of checking fans yearly and replacing as needed. However, I've never had box shutdown, only reboot. Did it really shut down, or was it maybe hung on boot wanting a manual fsck or something? If it actually shutdown, and you're not connected to a ups running a shutdown daemon, I would suspect someone did it accidentally or intentionally... Maybe something like "kill 1"? :) I was also never a power supply snob in the past, but I can honestly say now that I will not buy generic p/s anymore. I went thru 2 generic p/s on my home machine before buying the nice $100 antec... I haven't had any problems since... No lockups/reboots/etc. It definitely turned my thinking around. Brent To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
