[CentOS] Investigate the root cause of server reboot

Sun Sep 6 17:07:16 UTC 2009
Scott Ehrlich <srehrlich at gmail.com>

Maybe look for cron jobs?  Also, if you are on a network that has
Internet access, see if you have a vulnerable kernel?

On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Justin Yao<jyaojyao at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Barry,
>
> Thanks for your suggestion.
> The load of my server is very light. I'll give remote syslog a try. If
> remote syslog can't catch anything extra, is there any other clue?
>
> Thanks,
> Justin
>
>
> On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Barry Brimer <lists at brimer.org> wrote:
>>
>> > My CentOS will reboot every several days. There's nothing in
>> > /var/log/messages. I want to find out why it reboots automatically. Is
>> > there
>> > any log I can look at? Or any suggestions to monitor the server
>> > activity?
>>
>> You might try setting up remote syslogging to see if you catch anything
>> extra there .. besides that .. if you have any indication that it is load
>> related .. you might look at hangwatch
>> <http://people.redhat.com/astokes/hangwatch/> to try and get information
>> from sysrq if load becomes too high.
>>
>> Barry
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