Re: spurious reboot

2013-11-26 Thread Emmanuel Dreyfus
On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 08:24:33AM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote: The only way for software to cause this would be triple-fault AFAIK. And given I have a reboot every 4 or 5 hour, I would have lots of single and double faults between reboots, right? Or a watchdog ... # wdogctl Available

Re: spurious reboot

2013-11-26 Thread Brett Lymn
On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 09:04:03AM +, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote: But maybe you should try to replace RAM too ... I will try that, but shouldn't I get some panics if the RAM setup was bad? Possibly, possibly not - really depends on what the fault is. You could try running memtest+ on

Re: spurious reboot

2013-11-26 Thread Andy Ruhl
On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 9:48 PM, Emmanuel Dreyfus m...@netbsd.org wrote: Hi I have a new x86 machine that reboots on its own a few times a day. There is no kernel panic (I have ddb.onpanic=1 to be sure I could not miss it), no warning message, nothing, it just reboots. Is there a way for a

Re: spurious reboot

2013-11-26 Thread jgw
Andy Ruhl acr...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 9:48 PM, Emmanuel Dreyfus m...@netbsd.org wrote: Hi I have a new x86 machine that reboots on its own a few times a day. There is no kernel panic (I have ddb.onpanic=1 to be sure I could not miss it), no warning message, nothing,

Re: spurious reboot

2013-11-26 Thread Emmanuel Dreyfus
j...@sdf.org wrote: +1. Had a laptop doing that due to something in the ACPI thermal system reporting an occasional rediculously high CPU? temp. Once I determined that the system really wasn't overheating I simply changed the appropriate script under /etc/powerd/ to not initiate shutdown.

Re: spurious reboot

2013-11-26 Thread Ottavio Caruso
On 26 November 2013 04:48, Emmanuel Dreyfus m...@netbsd.org wrote: Hi I have a new x86 machine that reboots on its own a few times a day. There is no kernel panic (I have ddb.onpanic=1 to be sure I could not miss it), no warning message, nothing, it just reboots. Is there a way for a

Why run syslogd insecurely?

2013-11-26 Thread Christian Koch
Hello all, Is there a reason why I (or anyone) would *not* want to run syslogd(8) with the -s flag (secure mode) ? I don't understand why this is an option. -Christian

Re: Why run syslogd insecurely?

2013-11-26 Thread Manuel Bouyer
On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 09:06:19PM +, Christian Koch wrote: Hello all, Is there a reason why I (or anyone) would *not* want to run syslogd(8) with the -s flag (secure mode) ? I don't understand why this is an option. To receive messages from the network. This is the purpose of the UDP

[PPTP] Has someone successfully configured PPTP?

2013-11-26 Thread Xianwen Chen
Hi all, I found a manual on configuring PPTP on NetBSD 1.6, which is quite outdated. Has someone successfully configured PPTP on a recent version of NetBSD? Or is there a guide that I can read? Thanks. Kind regards, Xianwen