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OpenServer 5.0.7 reboots itself
2008/10/26
dave
I have a server that reboots itself every morning and sets the time to 12:00 CT, which ntp then corrects. I've checked the crontab and at jobs. The syslog and messages files have no logging other than the standard system start up messages.
Has anyone seen this situation before or have any other ideas?
Thanx ... Dave
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Sun Oct 26 13:28:48 2008: Subject: TonyLawrence
Really there are only a few possibilities:
Someone or something is rebooting you.
It's possible that this is a system crash; if you don't have
PANICBOOT=NO in /etc/default. boot, you wouldn't know.
(see "man F boot" or http://docsrv.sco.com:507/en/man/html.F/boot.F.html )
Also see http://aplawrence.com/Bofcusm/85.html and
http://aplawrence.com/SCOFAQ/FAQ_scotec1haltcatch.html
Sun Oct 26 14:12:47 2008: Subject: MarcFarnumRendino
1st thought is that it's in response to some failure
2nd thought: during that timeframe, turn up logging and log to another host
Sun Oct 26 15:18:47 2008: Subject: BigDumbDinosaur
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Check the BIOS settings to make sure hardware standby features have not been enabled. If this machine is more than a few years old, it might be a victim of a weak CMOS battery, which could explain the time reset.
You mentioned the startup messages in syslog but didn't mention what was logged immediately before the reboot. Some clues may lie there. A normal reboot (that is, one not caused by power failure or someone pressing the reset button) should log various shutdown messages as services are stopped. Also, check /etc/rc0.d/messages for shutdown messages that were logged as the server went down. The time stamp on each file thus found may help you as well.
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