RE: Server reboots - a funny add-on.

["Waldher, Travis R" <Travis R Waldher boeing com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob McClure Jr [mailto:robertmcclure earthlink net] 
> Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 1:23 PM
> To: redhat-install-list redhat com
> Subject: Re: Server reboots - a funny add-on.
> 
> 
> On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 12:51:27PM -0800, Waldher, Travis R wrote:
> > (Sorry for html format, I used it to highlight the items.)
> > 
> > Notice that the server reboots itself every 7 days, Sundays 
> at about 
> > 4am to be exact.
> > 
> > I can find no cron jobs under /var/spool/cron so I have no 
> idea what 
> > else it could be.
> > 
> > Does anyone have any ideas?  I have facilities putting a 
> line tap on, 
> > on the off chance the server is experiencing a voltage drop at that 
> > time.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Nov 23 04:02:02 cfs3 syslogd 1.4.1: restart.
> > Nov 23 04:26:17 cfs3 syslogd 1.4.1: restart.
> > Nov 23 04:26:17 cfs3 syslog: syslogd startup succeeded
> > Nov 23 07:00:54 cfs3 syslogd 1.4.1: restart.
> > Nov 23 07:00:54 cfs3 syslog: syslogd startup succeeded
> > Nov 24 09:07:17 cfs3 syslogd 1.4.1: restart.
> > Nov 24 09:07:17 cfs3 syslog: syslogd startup succeeded 
> [root cfs3 /]# 
> > cat /var/log/messages.1 |grep syslogd Nov 16 04:02:02 cfs3 syslogd 
> > 1.4.1: restart. Nov 17 09:39:11 cfs3 syslogd 1.4.1: restart.
> > Nov 17 09:39:11 cfs3 syslog: syslogd startup succeeded
> > Nov 20 10:01:30 cfs3 syslogd 1.4.1: restart.
> > Nov 20 10:01:30 cfs3 syslog: syslogd startup succeeded
> > Nov 20 10:16:56 cfs3 syslogd 1.4.1: restart.
> > Nov 20 10:16:56 cfs3 syslog: syslogd startup succeeded
> > Nov 21 07:24:48 cfs3 syslogd 1.4.1: restart.
> > Nov 21 07:24:48 cfs3 syslog: syslogd startup succeeded
> > [root cfs3 /]# cat /var/log/messages.2 |grep syslogd
> > Nov  9 04:02:01 cfs3 syslogd 1.4.1: restart.
> > Nov 13 11:22:08 cfs3 syslogd 1.4.1: restart.
> > Nov 13 11:22:08 cfs3 syslog: syslogd startup succeeded
> > Nov 13 12:01:29 cfs3 syslogd 1.4.1: restart.
> > Nov 13 12:01:29 cfs3 syslog: syslogd startup succeeded
> > Nov 13 12:25:35 cfs3 syslogd 1.4.1: restart.
> > Nov 13 12:25:36 cfs3 syslog: syslogd startup succeeded
> > Nov 13 15:49:43 cfs3 syslogd 1.4.1: restart.
> > Nov 13 15:49:43 cfs3 syslog: syslogd startup succeeded
> > [root cfs3 /]# cat /var/log/messages.3 |grep syslogd
> > Nov  2 04:02:02 cfs3 syslogd 1.4.1: restart.
> > Nov  3 06:59:49 cfs3 syslogd 1.4.1: restart.
> > Nov  3 06:59:49 cfs3 syslog: syslogd startup succeeded
> > Nov  4 09:41:13 cfs3 syslogd 1.4.1: restart.
> > Nov  4 09:41:13 cfs3 syslog: syslogd startup succeeded
> > Nov  4 22:44:52 cfs3 syslogd 1.4.1: restart.
> > Nov  4 22:44:52 cfs3 syslog: syslogd startup succeeded
> > Nov  5 03:49:07 cfs3 syslogd 1.4.1: restart.
> > Nov  5 03:49:07 cfs3 syslog: syslogd startup succeeded
> > Nov  5 13:36:36 cfs3 syslogd 1.4.1: restart.
> > Nov  5 13:36:36 cfs3 syslog: syslogd startup succeeded
> > Nov  5 19:57:08 cfs3 syslogd 1.4.1: restart.
> > Nov  5 19:57:08 cfs3 syslog: syslogd startup succeeded
> > [root cfs3 /]# cat /var/log/messages.4 |grep syslogd
> > Oct 26 04:02:02 cfs3 syslogd 1.4.1: restart. 
> 
> Are you sure it's rebooting?  Run "uptime" or "w" to see.
> 
> What you've shown is the restart done to syslogd after 
> logrotate rotates syslogd's logs (notably messages) every 
> Sunday morning.
> 

Yeah.. It's rebooting.  The NFS daemon isn't starting for some reason
during boot.  So.. When it reboots I know it.  Unless of course, for
some reason it's stopping/restarting the NFS Daemon.

But, I also notice that the uptime shows an appropriate time to
corospond with the time syslogd started.