crash analysis

[george donnelly]

[Fernando Gleiser wrote (fgleiser at cactus.fi.uba.ar) on 6/7/03 3:28 PM]

> On Sat, 7 Jun 2003, george donnelly wrote:
> 
>> I found my freebsd 4.7 server in a state of complete shutdown this morning.
>> I looked through the logs but did not find an obvious reason.
>> 
>> Can anyone suggest where I should start looking to find out why the machine
>> shut down?
> 
> try last(1). It should tell you if it was a crash or if someone rebooted
> the machine.

here's an excerpt:

reboot           ~                         Sat Jun  7 08:23
user1          ttyp0    IP    Sat Jun  7 08:23 - crash  (00:00)
user 2            ttyp9    IP   Fri Jun  6 21:21 - crash  (11:02)
user3           ttyp8    IP     Fri Jun  6 21:20 - crash  (11:02)

Does crash always mean that there was eg a panic or exhaustion of resources?

or could it also mean that the machine crashed as a result of a power-loss?

> Do you have crashdumps enabled?

I don't think so...

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