shutdown forensics
Robin Becker
robin at reportlab.com
Sun Apr 27 13:33:27 UTC 2008
Robert Huff wrote:
> Robin Becker writes:
>> I'm trying to figure out what caused an unplanned shutdown of a
>> freebsd 6.0 server; I see this in the last output
>>
>> reboot ~ Thu Apr 24 06:15
>> shutdown ~ Thu Apr 24 06:10
>>
>> but cannot see anybody having been logged in at the time. Is
>> there any way I can trace the origin of the shutdown command?
>
> I see a time like that, my gut suspicion for the shutdown is
> "something drive y a cro job".
>
>
> Robert Huff
.......
I've looked at the various cron jobs and cannot see anything that looks
suspicious. Root only has an ntp job which runs at 01:17. The one other
user with a crontab has jobs running at *:19 and 03:13. Looked in
/var/crash and see minfree from 2005.
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Robin Becker
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