Re: Mysterious frequent crashes at the same interval on three ma

1998-06-18 Thread Michael Beattie
On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Autumn wrote: > > Sorry I didn't make that clear. It is the latter. The first machine goes, > > and > > six hours later the next machine goes, and ten minutes later, the last one > > goes. > > The interval between machines stays the same to within a minute. > > Whoops! >

Re: Mysterious frequent crashes at the same interval on three ma

1998-06-17 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > If the latter, then the Society for the Investigation of Paranormal > > Phenomena > > would like to hear from you. > > Sorry I didn't make that clear. It is the latter. The first machine goes, > and > six hours later the next machine goes, and ten minutes later, the last one > goes. > The

Re: Mysterious frequent crashes at the same interval on three ma

1998-06-16 Thread Autumn
> Hmm... anything in the syslogs(/var/log)? Run a ps ax and see if there is > a sleep running, perhaps anacron is going nuts? Is it a graceful > shutdown? (Keep the replies to the list as I will be of little help.) Nothing sleeping, and anacron is not installed. I have even removed things lik

Re: Mysterious frequent crashes at the same interval on three ma

1998-06-16 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Autumn wrote: > Sorry I didn't make that clear. It is the latter. The first machine goes, > and > six hours later the next machine goes, and ten minutes later, the last one > goes. > The interval between machines stays the same to within a minute. > > I'm not convinced th

Re: Mysterious frequent crashes at the same interval on three ma

1998-06-16 Thread Autumn
> Sorry I didn't make that clear. It is the latter. The first machine goes, > and > six hours later the next machine goes, and ten minutes later, the last one > goes. > The interval between machines stays the same to within a minute. Whoops! It's not six hours, it's one hour. That was the ne

Re: Mysterious frequent crashes at the same interval on three ma

1998-06-16 Thread Autumn
> Are the machines rebooting simultaneously (i.e. at the same absolute clock > times, allowing for system clocks differing), or at quite different absloute > times (but with matching inter-reboot intervals)? > > If the former, consider your power supply. > > If the latter, then the Society for the

RE: Mysterious frequent crashes at the same interval on three ma

1998-06-16 Thread Ted Harding
On 16-Jun-98 Autumn wrote: > I've tried throwing up my hands in frustration, but so far it hasn't > helped. > > I have three Debian machines here, and they're rebooting quite > frequently on almost exactly the same irregular schedule. The time > between reboots has ranged from 11 to 70 hours over