> Hi All, > > Thanks to all of you that replied so promptly to my question. > However I think I failed to outline the situation clearly > enough so with the responses so far in mind... > > Question was: Is it possible for FreeBSD to shut itself down > and restart for no reason? > > - The "new server in question has been running at another > facility without any problems for about 4 months so I am > assuming it is "burned in" and stable. > > - The logs (var/log/messages, /var/log/httpd-error.log) do > not show any obvious issues such as kernel panics, just a > hard restart (/ not dismounted > correctly) > > - As far as I can tell the box has not been exploited -- if > someone we restarting the machine via software then / would > dismount correctly. >
Right now I have the exact same thing happening to one machine. It is located offsite (naturally) and about 10 days ago it had a random shutdown (did not come back up) followed by a random reboot a couple days later. It had been running 50-60 days previous. The shutdown occurred just after business hours, the reboot at about 4am. I now have the machine emailing me at specific intervals to try to narrow things down. I have a couple ideas for the both of us. One is that maybe the machine is plugged into a faulty power line, something that is borking the current enough to cause reboots. Another is that maybe the PSU is dying prematurely (3mos old for me). I wish us both good luck. -Derrick To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
