On Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:04:50 -0800, Bill Campbell wrote: > 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 Nothing jumps out. Mike.