Just to wrap this thread up, as I was out of town last couple of days:
According to shutdown(8) there should be a message in the log stating
when the system went down, who did it and why.
There should be... but there isn't :-). The only thing that went to
/var/log/messages is syslogd exiting
On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 03:55:42AM +0100, n j wrote:
Hello Randy, Roland, Gary,
UPS drivers can shut the system down, but you seemed to have ruled
that out?
The UPS is present, but I never set up and configured anything (no
snmp or any other agents) that would give the UPS the
Hello,
my FreeBSD (6.2 release) box shut down at approximately 3 AM with no
apparent reason whatsoever. I'm looking for any hints/pointers that
would help me detect why the box decided to shutdown. Perhaps someone
with similar experience?
This is from 'last' command:
shutdown ~
Does it happened before, or does it happened everyday at 3 am, or is this the
first time your box shutdown without explaination?
No, this is the first time this has occurred, that is what makes it
completely unexpected.
If this is the first time, I would say there are many possibilities. Say
On Sun, 18 Nov 2007 22:12:34 +0100
n j [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does it happened before, or does it happened everyday at 3 am, or is this
the first time your box shutdown without explaination?
No, this is the first time this has occurred, that is what makes it
completely unexpected.
On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 10:12:34PM +0100, n j wrote:
I know there are many possibilities out there, but I am pondering this
for the whole day and ruled out everything that came to mind. So, any
other ideas - even humorous - are welcome.
Since it was a regular shutdown as opposed to a panic,
On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 11:58:49PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote:
On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 10:12:34PM +0100, n j wrote:
I know there are many possibilities out there, but I am pondering this
for the whole day and ruled out everything that came to mind. So, any
other ideas - even humorous - are
Hello Randy, Roland, Gary,
This is all ancedotal since I don't have any hard evidence to point
to exactly one thing since I also swapped out a fan and reinserted
connectors in the process. My feeling is that it was hard
drive heat-related so my suggestion is to do some poking around for hot
