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From: Paul Venezia <pvenezia@top.monad.net>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: BSDI 2.1 STOPING RANDOMLY
Date: Mon, 09 Sep 1996 09:03:32 -0400
Organization: MonadNet Corp.
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To: stephen@sysconi.com

stephen@sysconi.com wrote:
> 
> Has anyone seen an issue where bsdi just stops and the main screen
> lockups with no responce at the login prompt, its happening now every
> weekday once a day.
> The only way to reslove it is reboot.
> 
> My system on Friday also rebooted on its own, any ideas would be
> a great help
> 
> thanks
> 
> stephen@sysconi.com

Sounds like you have a cron job that's causing the lockup. (Or something 
that only runs on weekdays). I would trace it from there.
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