let me just throw this out there..

[Oliver Leitner]

ok, now open some tail -f 's and stay logged in monitoring them continuously, 
also let a packet capture program like tcpdum run, from that box, and from 
some other box on your network as well, to see if anything unusual comes 
through...

also check if that reboot happens again, and if so, if it happens at exactly 
the same time again...

And then set all daemons, that didnt startup with the machine to debug mode 
logging, also look if they have existing startup files (...sh in rc.d, maybe 
enabled through rc.conf...)

just general error searching routines...

Greetings
Oliver Leitner
Technical Staff
http://www.shells.at

On Monday 24 January 2005 22:14, gabriel wrote:
> Yeah I'm the only root there, the only user with wheel access isnt
> even used often for that same reason. I checked the logs and oddly
> enough, it was all just like "reboot", nothing interesting or
> anything, I checked all the ssh logs and everything looks okay. The
> weird thing is the deamons not starting, thats just odd. As a matter
> of fact, the first thing I checked was df -h to see if may be /var or
> / was full, but no, everything was good. Again.. weird.
>
> On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 22:04:57 +0100, Oliver Leitner <Shadow333 at gmx.at> wrote:
> > sounds like either powersurgery or you hit the wrong button to me...
> > also, are you the only one with root or power access to it?
> >
> > maybe some coworker stepped over the cable, or some other one thought he
> > could work with a bsd, and just did the shutdown -r now...
> >
> > in case you might wanna check all the logs, also the ones including
> > informations on who connected to that box.
> >
> > Also, its only a thought, but how much space is left on that system, do a
> > df -h and have a closer look...
> >
> > Greetings
> > Oliver Leitner
> > Technical Staff
> > http://www.shells.at
> >
> > On Monday 24 January 2005 22:02, gabriel wrote:
> > > Has it ever happened to anyone here where your computer (in this case,
> > > my gateway running ipfw+natd) just restarts out of nowhere. It isnt
> > > even a crash, it just restarted. Then when the computer came back up
> > > nothing was running, dhcpd, natd, cupsd everything was just not
> > > running. Weird.
> >
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