On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 05:08:27PM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
[...]
> I guess I'm wondering: how concerned should I be? Can you think of
> other reasons the machine might have auto-rebooted? It appears to have
> happened right after the morning cron exercises; do any common cron jobs
> reboot the machine? I'd like to avoid a reinstall if possible, but if I
> can't come up with an explanation other than a break-in, I'll have to
> bite the bullet and do it. :-(
[...]
I had a power supply go bad a few months back, the 5 volt line was
running at about 4.3 volts (IIRC). It would run OK for extended
periods, but doing anything involving a lot of disk activity could
bring on a reboot. Considering that there are a lot of things in the
daily crontab which involve heavy disk activity (updatedb comes to
mind), you shouldn't rule out a hardware problem.
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