On Sun, Jun 3, 2018 at 5:54 PM, William Park via talk <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 03, 2018 at 02:47:13PM -0500, o1bigtenor via talk wrote: >> Greetings >> >> I am quite new at running a server so hopefully the question isn't too >> out there. >> >> My server has been operational for about a year and I am working on a >> number of different projects on it. Twice now (this last friday and 5 >> weeks early I came into the office to find that the server has somehow >> been taken down and has rebooted itself (process setup in the bios) >> but as it doesn't quite complete the boot process, I have to hit a key >> to tell it to continue and then finally to log in to read Debian >> (stable). > > Who does the stopping? BIOS or Linux kernel?
Bios - - - need to hit F2 (IIRC) to kick the bios in the pants and then I can get to the os prompt a little later. > > I ask because, my machine always stops at BIOS prompt when power comes > back. I don't know why. I set the BIOS to "power off" when power comes > back, so it should stay turned off, but it doesn't. > >> >> So I am trying to determine what may have caused the system to do a >> reboot, whilst I have my suspicions I want to figure out exactly what >> is happening to cause this kind of behavior. AIUI servers should be >> able to run happily for years without issues (barring hardware >> problems) so I want that kind of reliability. Where in /var/log will I >> be finding the most clues as to the events that lead up to this >> 'reboot'? > > /var/log/message > /var/log/syslog > /var/log/debug > Thanks - - - that last one was quite useful. Dee --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
