Re: Reason for system reboot?
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 10:01:00AM +0100, Jan Johansson wrote:
> 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. 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.
Two things:
1) You might try building or installing a new kernel for that thing;
you're still running the installer kernel which is certainly not
optimal for your specific hardware.
2) I wouldn't worry so much about it crashing unless it happens again.
If it does crap out again, apt-get install either memtest or
memtest86, depending upon whether you can live without this machine
being used for an evening. Bad RAM or a bad power source is most
often the source of instability, in my experience.
-troy
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