[CentOS] Investigate the root cause of server reboot

Sun Sep 6 18:02:14 UTC 2009
Matt Iavarone <matt.iavarone at gmail.com>

On 09/06/2009 10:23 AM, Lanny Marcus wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Les Mikesell<lesmikesell at gmail.com>  wrote:
>    
>> Justin Yao 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?
>>>
>>>        
>> Odds are that it is hardware related (power supply, RAM, etc.) and crashing
>> before it can log anything.
>>      
>
> +1      unless it is happening at the same time when a cron job is
> running, as Scott mentioned.  Inspect the fans on the PSU and CPU and
> make sure they are running.   Be sure it has good ventilation and is
> clean inside.
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Can you sent the hardware specs?  I use a lot of HP servers and they 
have a 'feature' called ASR that will reboot non-responsive servers.

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