[GRLUG] Rebooting linux server

[megadave]

Theres also always the option to do syslogging over network to a
stable machine..

On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 4:07 PM, Adam Tauno Williams
<awilliam at whitemice.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-07-03 at 09:20 -0400, Michael Mol wrote:
>> 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?
>
> +1
>
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