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? 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 in advance!! > > Dee > --- > Talk Mailing List > [email protected] > https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk -- William Park <[email protected]> --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
