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Re: Reason for system reboot?



Am Mon, 2003-03-10 um 10.01 schrieb Jan Johansson:
> Is there someway to find out what caused a system reboot? I have the
> following in my "last"
> 
> argus:~# last -20
> root     pts/0        192.168.221.207  Mon Mar 10 08:11   still logged
> in   
> reboot   system boot  2.4.18-bf2.4     Sun Mar  9 17:49          (16:06)
> 
> root     pts/0        192.168.221.207  Fri Mar  7 16:31 - crash
> (2+01:18)   

> But i cant find anything in the logs which shows why the system was
> rebooted. 
So i'am. Looks something garbaged. Is that really wath you are finding
in your logs? Try have a look to /var/log/syslog with an editor.

> What worries me more is that I should be the only one with
> root access to this system, which Is a minimalistic Debian/Testing doing
> not much else then running shorewall.

Do you have pressing ctrl-alt-del for restarting system active? Because
i have some win-nt/2000/xp-boxes with Netware and linux nearby another 
i usually disable this. (Makes much less unnessecary restarts on the
linux machines.)

-- 
Wilfried Essig




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