Hello: I hope these questions are not off topic. I have been working with the 4.4 release for the last few months (learning something new keeps brain cells alive). I got an old P2 or P3 (?) up and running as a firewall at home. It appears to be very stable, however, every 1 to 3 weeks or so, I get an email from cron telling me that a script had a "segmentation fault" (I set up some basic scripts, the one that seems to have this issue runs every 5 minutes, scans authlog for failed ssh attempts, and enters those ip's into a blacklist table for PF). So, it's not a big deal, because 5 minutes later it runs again, and is fine. But, I was wondering, how concerned should I be about this? I understand a seg fault is pretty vague, and can mean any of a bunch of things (e.g.: a corrupt memory cell). So, this is not a "critical" system, but then again I don't want to come home one day and spend time replacing it before I can get my email. Similarly, it doesn't happen often (once every 1-3 weeks), so, I don't want to waste a bunch of time ripping the computer apart trying to find the source of the error (if it's hardware), if the system is otherwise stable, and this doesn't pose a substantial risk of failure. Should I be worried about this or not?
Second question: Given my success with the first system, I started working on another old computer (I don't know, maybe a fileserver). While installing and setting up 4.4, I added "powerdown=YES" to rc.shutdown, so it would automatically powerdown on "halt." However, when I have the system halt, it shuts down cleanly, gets to the "powerdown" stage, I hear the disks stop spinning, but, the power supply fan, and the CPU fan keep running. Also, a video signal is still present (the monitor does not go to sleep). So, I hit the power switch for a couple of seconds, and it powers off completely. APM is present and running. This system is an old HP Pavilion 8580C (an ASUS motherboard, I guess). I thought maybe there was a problem with the power supply, so I replaced it with a different ATX power supply, but same problem. I would guess this is a problem with the motherboard's APM, but I was wondering if there is any sort of workaround for this? Thanks. Bye - ted
