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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!bubba.ucc.okstate.edu!news.ksu.ksu.edu!news.mid.net!trinews.sbc.com!newspump.wustl.edu!newsreader.wustl.edu!news.starnet.net!wupost!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!peernews.demon.co.uk!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: Hourly reboots - known bug? Date: 25 Jan 1995 00:57:45 -0000 Organization: None Lines: 24 Message-ID: <3g47m9$5jb@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> References: <3fm0a7$gls@ivory.lm.com> <3fmsuc$s1d@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Jordan K. Hubbard (jkh@violet.berkeley.edu) wrote: : In article <3fm0a7$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 Have a look in yer cron files too... I found that moving files between mounted DOS filesystems can upset things. -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....