On Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:03:49 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > 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? > > Are you dropping things on top of running programs (like tar itself) or > /proc or /sys? I hope not; I am putting the result in a data directory. In and case, I can't run at all now. Mike.