Mysterious restart
 

Hi there

Woke up this morning to the unexpected noise of my linux box mysteriously rebooting itself. I have looked in the logs for why this might have happened, but nothing. They all just seem to come to a stop with no explanation.

Anyone know of a reason why this could have happened? Should I be worried?

Thx

A short power cut maybe? Overheating?

what do u get for

last root

Hi there

- Short powercut: Its certainly feasible, but surprised it would reboot rather than just not restart? Also, no clocks in the house needed resetting, so i'm thinking perhaps not?

- Overheating: I suspect not, because it rebooted straight away and has been on ever since with no probs.

- Last root...nothing unusual.

I think I might just put this one down to "just one of those things" unless it starts happening on a more regular basis...

from
last root
i wanted to whether u had a normal reboot or system crash etc

regards

I would run chkrootkit just in case. Also, the logs show nothing at all? No unusual logins or anything?

last entry does say "crash"...

Last entry in what?

last root

Exactly. "last root" shows "crash" next to the last entry.

so we now know that was a crash
this can happen due to power loss ....

Yeah, perhaps it was just a spike or something....

I'll keep an eye on it...

Thx for all your advice guys!

power loss can be just one option
if u could analyse ur logs more then maybe u can see if that reboot was not due to some other reasons


regards