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From: heller@socko.cdnow.com (A. Karl Heller)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.2.1 and reboots!
Date: 14 Jun 1997 21:51:56 GMT
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James Lummel (jlummel@no.such.domain) wrote:
: I'm running a WWW server with FreeBSD 2.2.1, it's a P200 64Meg memory and 
: a 3Gig Quantum SCSI off a Adaptec 2940U controller.  The system reboots 
: itself every few days, but doesn't log any errors prior to the reboot.

  
  Set "savecore=yes" in /etc/sysconfig, and make sure the /var/crash
directory exists.  This way, when it boots up, ( and assuming something
other than your computer hardware is causing the problem ) you should
get a crash dump if it is a kernel problem.


: Anyone run into this problem before?  During one of the reboots several 
: files on the /usr partition got messed up pretty bad.


   I ran into something similar to this running Solaris X86 on a P200 machine.
It would just spontaneously reboot.  No logs or anything.  Very spooky.

Karl