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From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: Hourly reboots - known bug?
Date: 19 Jan 1995 23:34:36 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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In article <3fm0a7$gls@ivory.lm.com>,
Peter Berger <peterb@telerama.lm.com> wrote:
>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.

This is bizarre.  Needless to say, I can't say that I've encountered
anything like it.  Sure, it's possible to panic a 2.0R system (rather easily,
in fact! :-) but not in a no-load-whatsoever situation.

Are you using MFS, perchance?

				Jordan