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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in2.uu.net!204.191.213.61!ott.istar!istar.net!van.istar!west.istar!news-w.ans.net!newsfeeds.ans.net!lantana.singnet.com.sg!peony.singnet.com.sg!nuscc.nus.sg!iss.nus.sg!not-for-mail From: kongwah@iss.nus.sg (Wan Kong Wah) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: mysterious reboot Date: 24 Feb 1997 09:05:35 GMT Organization: Institute Of Systems Science, National University Of Singapore. Lines: 30 Message-ID: <5erlkv$kbv@holodeck.iss.nus.sg> NNTP-Posting-Host: otter.iss.nus.sg X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:36018 Hi, I am running an licence plate recognition system on a Pentium running FreeBSD and using the Matrox Meteor card. An external trigger comes via the serial port and the computer s/w invokes the digitizer to grab a frame. The frame is saved on an remotely NFS mounted directories, where another recognition process will time-poll to grab the image for recognition. I have reboot problems for no apparent reasons. The rebooting occurs about every 3-4 days. I am thinking that it must be because of the lpr s/w I am running. What are the things I should be watching for? I am also thinking of directing the reboot error messages onto /var/log files, via syslogd. But I would like to check out whether this reboot stuff is already a well-known problem with you guys. Would appreciate any help, Thanks and kind regards, Kong Wah