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From: peterb@telerama.lm.com (Peter Berger)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Hourly reboots - known bug?
Date: 19 Jan 1995 10:25:59 -0500
Organization: Telerama Public Access Internet, Pittsburgh, PA USA
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I'm running FreeBSD 2.0-Release.  

When left to it's own devices overnight, under no load whatsoever, my
machine cheerily and happily reboots itself spontaneously once per hour,
plus or minus five minutes to the top of the hour.

There are no indications of kernel panics or other problems.  The only 
syslogged message is: 

Jan 19 01:57:33 blindman syslogd restart

Discussing this with an associate, he said "You know, I've
heard of that problem before, but I can't recall why it occurred.  Ask on
the BSD newsgroups."  So I am.

I saw no cron or at jobs that would account for this behavior.

Suggestions?




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  Peter G. Berger, Esq.  Telerama Public Access Internet, Pittsburgh
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