That was a great answer. The server is rebooting every morning at 7:00. I
will see what I can find out from that. 


Chris Baker -- cbaker AT intera DOT com
systems administrator
INTERA -- 512-425-2006

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Robertson [mailto:crobertson AT gci DOT net] 
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 2:58 PM
To: General list for user discussion, questions and support
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Server reboots nightly

Chris Baker wrote:
> Which logs should I check? 

/var/log/messages

> And what should I look for in these logs?

Run the command dmesg (first, "man dmesg" so you know what this command
does) and take a look at the output.  This is the bootup message and should
be replicated in /var/log/messages.  Take a look at the entries above for
clues as to why your server is restarting.  The last log entry before the
dmesg output should be something along the lines of "Kernel log daemon
terminating." and should be proceeded by evidence of exiting processes.  If
not, you probably have power or hardware problems.  If you do see evidence
of a graceful restart, at least you know about when it's happening.  Start
looking through /etc/cron.* and /etc/crontab for jobs that run around that
time.

>  I do
> know where the logs are on the system.
>   

Chris

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