Server reboots at random :-(

[Edwin Groothuis]

On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 12:29:00PM -0400, BarryFriedman at www1.emax.ca wrote:
> Any ideas about how to troubleshoot this would be greatly appreciated.

Start with enabling crash dumps to see if it is a kernel issue or
a hardware issue:

In /etc/rc.conf:

    dumpdev="AUTO"
    dumpdir="/usr/crash"

The second reboot will take muuuuch longer because it is saving
this, but it gives some information to start with.

See also
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug.html
and following.

Edwin
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