Re: finding cause of reboot

From: Alan Somers <asomers_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2025 14:12:10 UTC
The "boot" command will give you a vague description like "shutdown" or
"crash".  If a crash was the cause then maybe your system isn't configured
to make core dumps.  I suggest forcing a crash with
"sysctl debug.kdb.panic=1" while you watch the screen to see what happens.

On Thu, Oct 16, 2025 at 7:35 AM void <void@f-m.fm> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to work out why a reboot is happening.
> line power is fine. PSU is fine.
> There's no coredump.
> Nothing in /var/log/messages console.log all.log or daemon.log
>
> Is there a thing I can set somewhere which when enabled will
> capture why a system reboots?
>
> thnx
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