> 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 a
> 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 "ne
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 01:09:19PM -0800, Steve Warwick wrote:
> 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
Hello Steve:
On Monday, March 24, 2003, at 01:09 PM, Steve Warwick wrote:
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
Hardware could still be an issue... It might be a CPU fan going out.
That would explain the reboots. CPU overheats and then reboots.
If it's been running fine for 4 months, yes, then it's burned in, but
the fan (or some other hardware) might have failed in the mean time.
Peter
At 01:09 PM 3/24/
