Frank wrote:
I have a Centos 5.4 machine that has, for the past two weeks, apparently been shut off over the weekend. It's just sitting there turned off on Monday morning and when someone hits the power switch it comes right back on and everything works again.
This happened last weekend, and again over this past weekend.
Here is /var/log/messages from shortly before it apparently shut down this weekend. Can anyone tell me what is or might be going on?
Apr 10 11:01:27 answeringmachine vgetty[6012]: message keep, length=00:00:20, name='', caller=none, dev=ttyACM0, pid=6012 Apr 10 11:19:10 answeringmachine vgetty[6095]: message keep, length=00:00:24, name='', caller=none, dev=ttyACM0, pid=6095 Apr 10 11:43:56 answeringmachine vgetty[6134]: message keep, length=00:00:11, name='', caller=none, dev=ttyACM0, pid=6134 Apr 10 12:22:34 answeringmachine mgetty[6029]: fax dev=ttyS1, pid=6029, caller='none', name='', id='', +FHNG=074, pages=0/0, time=00:00:51 Apr 10 12:43:49 answeringmachine gconfd (freeads-3524): Exiting
This - I wonder if someone's somehow getting in. Anything in /var/log/secure for 12:43?
Apr 10 12:43:49 answeringmachine gdm[2872]: Master halting... Apr 10 12:43:49 answeringmachine pcscd: winscard.c:304:SCardConnect() Reader E-Gate 0 0 Not Found Apr 10 12:43:50 answeringmachine shutdown[2872]: shutting down for system halt
Here's a thought: does it have bluetooth enabled? Is it in range to talk to someone *else's* bluetooth keyboard? Is anyone near enough to shut down their machine, and/or accidentally yours? <snip>
status 0) Apr 10 12:43:52 answeringmachine avahi-daemon[2769]: Got SIGTERM, quitting.
Is this machine hardwired? If so, you do NOT need the avahi-daemon, on by default, which is intended for a clueless home user to set up a network. Turn it *off*, and yank the firewall rule that allows it. <snip>
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