[GRLUG] Rebooting linux server

[Michael Mol]

On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 8:24 AM, Collin Kidder <collink at kkmfg.com> wrote:
> I have a server running Debian 6.0.5. It likes to reboot at random. I get
> uptimes which range between about 8 hours and 8 days. There doesn't appear
> to be much rhyme or reason for this. The server is a ProLiant DL380 G3 and I
> do have redundant power supplies installed. I've tried looking at the logs
> but of course anything which happened too close to the time of the reboot
> seems to have not passed from cache to disk before the sudden reboot so all
> I see are normal log entries, a gap,  and then messages as processes start
> up upon reboot. I think there might be reason to suspect some sort of
> hardware failure but the machine doesn't seem to be indicating to me that
> anything failed.
>
> I'm not exactly a server administration wizard so what should I be looking
> for to try to figure this out?

Can you leave a laptop hooked up to the serial port and set serial
port logging? Or even logging to a printer?

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