FreeBSD-7 reboots hourly

Johan Hendriks Johan at double-l.nl
Mon Aug 18 08:13:46 UTC 2008


>Hello dear colleagues.

>2 days I have strange behaviour on my 7.0-RELEASE-p3 server.
>It started to reboot once an hour.
>No any suspicious task in crontab, nothing strange in /var/log.
>Just silent reboot.
>I have no physical access to server - only remote one.

>Question is: what could it be?
>How to find what send computer to reboot?

>Just extra information: I had such stuff before - installworld helped me 
>for one week,
>now it appears again :(

>Opened services/sockets are:
>nobody   proftpd    647   1  tcp4   *:21                  *:*
>root     sshd       845   4  tcp4   *:22                  *:*
>postfix  smtpd      5115  6  tcp4   *:25                  *:*
>bind     named      525   20 udp4   xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:53    *:*
>nobody   nginx      643   4  tcp4   *:80                  *:*
>root     couriertcp 769   3  tcp4   *:110                 *:*
>root     couriertcp 789   3  tcp4   *:143                 *:*
>root     rsync      659   5  tcp4   *:873                 *:*
>root     couriertcp 779   3  tcp4   *:993                 *:*
>root     couriertcp 760   3  tcp4   *:995                 *:*
>root     syslogd    461   9  udp4   *:514                 *:*

>also on local interface (lo0) I have apache, postgrey, spamassasin.

>I need some pieces of advice what to do with it and what could it be.

>Thanks in advance,
>Alexey A. Ukhov

>P.S.: I mean hourly: I start top and just wait. last what I see is: 
>0:59:59 uptime

Try to disable some cronjobs that run hourly.
I think it is something within a cronjob.

Regards,
Johan

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