Re: FreeBSD-7 reboots hourly

2008-08-20 Thread Jeff Kletsky
I had a similar puzzle to unravel with a CentOS (RHEL equivalent) box. The clues there were in the log files that showed that gdm was exec-ing shutdown. I'm not suggesting that is the answer here, but looking at your logs may help. While the CentOS shutdown process is different than FreeBSD,

FreeBSD-7 reboots hourly

2008-08-18 Thread Alexey A. Ukhov
Hello dear colleagues. 2 days I have strange behaviour on my 7.0-RELEASE-p3 server. It started to reboot once an hour. No any suspicious task in crontab, nothing strange in /var/log. Just silent reboot. I have no physical access to server - only remote one. Question is: what could it be? How to

RE: FreeBSD-7 reboots hourly

2008-08-18 Thread Johan Hendriks
Hello dear colleagues. 2 days I have strange behaviour on my 7.0-RELEASE-p3 server. It started to reboot once an hour. No any suspicious task in crontab, nothing strange in /var/log. Just silent reboot. I have no physical access to server - only remote one. Question is: what could it be? How to

RE: FreeBSD-7 reboots hourly

2008-08-18 Thread Johan Hendriks
Hm, already did. No any cron tasks - only system ones. Moreover - stopped all non-system services. System is still going to reboot hourly. Try to disable the system jobs also. It could be something like the system tools! Regards, Johan No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG -

Re: FreeBSD-7 reboots hourly

2008-08-18 Thread Bhasker C V
There could be memory issues. I had a system which used to periodically reboot. Eventually found out that after some time, when a part of memory is accessed, due to the faulty memory chip, the system crashes and reboots. Try swapping the memory banks and boot the system. If the faulty chip