If you applied all the Matthew's suggestions and it is still a
mystery, and if server's shutdown is clean, look for a
a (buggy) user land process that sends SIGUSR2 signal
to init(1).
Matthew Seaman wrote:
Grant Peel wrote:
Hi all,
I started getting watchmouse errors about on pf my servers not
responding. There is a DRAC on the machine, and the sensor data was
all good. When I got the machine back up and running, I seen this in
lastlog:
client1 ftp hostname1here Wed Sep 17 17:02 - shutdown
(00:46)
client2 ftp hostname2here Wed Sep 17 17:02 - shutdown
(00:46)
client2 ftp hostname2here Wed Sep 17 17:02 - shutdown
(00:46)
client3 ftp hostname3here Wed Sep 17 17:01 - 17:06
(00:04)
Should I be worried about seeing 'shutdown' in an ftp line of last?
That just means the ftp user was still logged in at the time the
system shut down.
If not, how would you suggest I find the process or program that
issued the shutdown command?
Read the system logs, basically. /var/log/messages or /var/log/all.log
(if you've enabled it). The shutdown(8) command will always write
syslog messages when invoked. halt(8) or reboot(8) will write a
'shutdown'
record into wtmp (ie. look at 'last shutdown') but don't log anything
to syslog.
However, you're quite likely to find that there is nothing in the log
or wtmp files to explain what happened. All this means is that the
system went down suddenly -- perhaps power dropped out momentarily, or
a thermal cutout tripped or the system panic'd for one of any number
of reasons. You'ld be able to detect log file traces showing fsck(8)
being run on the root f/s following any of those sort of unclean
shutdowns, and if the system panic'd then you may well have a core
dump sitting in /var/db/crash -- depends whether you've enabled that
functionality or not.
Cheers,
Matthew
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