Did you look in the crontab and see if there's anything in there that would cause it to reboot? Has the box been compromised? If you're the only person adminstering the box, I can't imagine any other way this would have started happening. Jay > -----Original Message----- > From: mjn [mailto:mjn at umn.edu] > Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 8:18 AM > To: tclug-list at lists.real-time.com > Subject: [TCLUG] Spontaneous reboot? > > > Since the 24th of November, one of the Linux machines I have > been looking > after seems to be rebooting itself at 6:58 every morning. This is the > only reason I figured out there is a problem with the interface > configuration problem with the machine (which I fixed this > morning...there > was no DEVICE token in the ifcfg file). > > I have checked in /var/log/messages and there is no > indication as to why > the box restarts. I get the normal stuff listed there and then I see > syslog restarting followed by the rest of the boot messages... > > Any idea what might be going on or where i might investigate > this further? > > > > Side bar: I just developed another new problem. http failed > to come up > this morning given this error: > > httpd: cannot determine local host name. > Use the ServerName directive to set it manually. > > I specified ServerName in httpd.conf and it works but is > there any danger > to adding the manual setting and what might have caused this? > /etc/sysconfig/network lists the correct hostname. > > After some more checking i remembered that I put a pointer to > this machine > in /etc/hosts and removing it seems to have stopped the error from > occuring...any ideas as to why a self reference in /etc/hosts > would cause > the hostname lookup to fail? That seems strange. > > Thanks... > ____________________________ > Mike Neuharth > ADCS Technology Specialist > http://www.umn.edu/adcs > > E-Mail : mjn at umn.edu > Page Mail : 6126486512 at page.metrocall.com > http://nifty.dsl.visi.com/ > ____________________________ > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at lists.real-time.com > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >