[CentOS] Long tar -x: Box Shuts Down

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Nov 05, 2009, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote:
>My Centos 5.2 box shuts itself down during a
>long tar -x.  There is plenty of disk available.
>This is new; it worked in the past.
>
>Any suggestions?

Look in the logs, particularly dmesg, to see if there are any
hints there.

Bill
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