let me just throw this out there..

[Garance A Drosihn]

At 1:02 PM -0800 1/24/05, gabriel wrote:
>Has it ever happened to anyone here where your computer (in this
>case, my gateway running ipfw+natd) just restarts out of nowhere.
>It isn't even a crash, it just restarted.

Yes.  Turned out to be an overheating problem.  (one of the CPU
fans was starting to fail -- and eventually it completely failed).

>Then when the computer came back up nothing was running, dhcpd,
>natd, cupsd everything was just not running. Weird.

I don't remember this happening, but it might have in some cases.
The machine in question does not run many services.

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Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad at gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad at freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih at rpi.edu