>From: "Ralf G. R. Bergs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 18:10:33 +0100 >Reply-To: "Ralf G. R. Bergs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Priority: Normal >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > >First, no reason to worry! > >On Wed, 09 Jun 1999 09:17:10 -0400 (EDT), James D. Freels wrote: > >>I am getting unexplained system shutdowns at arbitrary times. Also > >No shutdowns! Or have you actually observed them yourself? I mean have >you been sitting at the console watching the machine go down?
I am not so sure about what you say. True, I have not actually physically observed a shutdown. But, I have seen the console screen at the start of a work day that normally would be the screensaver running. Also, why is the clock on the bios wrong? >>the system clock is being changed when this unexplained shutdown / >>restart occurs. This is best demonstrated by the following entries in >>my /var/log/messages file (Debian 2.1) >> >>Jun 9 06:55:21 fea -- MARK -- > >This is just a "still-alive" message from syslogd. You can safely ignore >it (or stop it by specifying "mark.none" for /var/log/messages). Well, I knew that, but, thanks I did not know how to turn it off. >>Jun 9 06:58:01 fea exiting on signal 15 >>Jun 9 05:01:33 fea syslogd 1.3-3#31: restart. > >This is just produced by a daily script that trims the logs. To do this >you have to stop syslogd/klogd, trim the logs, then restart both. If you >trimmed the logs while the two daemons are still running they wouldn't be >able to create/append to the logs anymore. > >Again: I don't think there is a reason to be alarmed. No. I won't be changing the daily log stuff. I hope you are right. However, another thing I have observed that I did not mention. I use an APC UPS. It also shut the system down one day for no apparent reason. Other machines with and without UPSs: no problems reported. When observing the upsstat.log file, I see the ups went from an average of 22% to nearly 50% when I got the new motherboard (old processor was a 166 Mhz PI). It also seems to fluctuate (+- 2-3%). I am not sure whether the battery may be going bad or if the UPS is not large enough. It doesn't make sense being a 600 watter. I will swap with another one to test this theory. Thanks for you help... -- /------------------------------------------------------------------\ |James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. |Phone: (423)576-8645 | | L | A | |Oak Ridge National Laboratory |FAX: (423)574-9172 | H | I | L | |Research Reactors Division |work e-m: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| F | N | P | |P. O. Box 2008 |home e-m: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | I | U | H | |Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6392|world's best neutrons | R | X | A | \------------------------------------------------------------------/
