What the?!?!?!? Reboot out of nowhere!

[justinw.5607521 at bloglines.com]

The problem with that is there would be either a kernel panic logged in /var/log/messages,
or at least mention of the cron job shortly before the reboot in /var/log/cron





> another possibility is the kernel panic'ed because of something
( a cron
> job, etc...) and when this happens the kernel reboots in 180 seconds.

> this may have been caused by a variation in things inside ( p/s is
> common
) 
> 
> 
> sloopy.
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 14:31, Dakidd wrote:

> > >> So I'm sitting here in front of my PM 7500 running MacOS 9.1, using
it as
> > >a
> > >> TV set to watch "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly", when
my PM 7600 running
> > >
> > >> YDL 3.0, which is sitting just to the right
of the 7500, idle, nobody
> > >> logged on, with the monitor powered down,
goes "BONG!" for no detectable
> > >
> > >> reason.
> > >
> > >
> > >Most
likely dirty power.  Possible that your motherboard or
> > >power supply
are going out, but most likely there was some dirty power on
> > >the wire
and your power supply either protected you from a slight surge, or
> > >took
a break with not enough juice to work with.  And yeah, some power
> > >supplies

> > >can be more sensitive than others, which could explain why your other
system
> > >was fine.
> > 
> > I'd find this idea a lot easier to accept
if, as has always been the case
> > in the past during "power troubles" (*RELATIVELY*
common, as far out in the
> > boonies as I am), the 7500 and the lights "twitched".
The 7500 has always
> > (for me at least) been the "touchier" machine when
it comes to power issues
> > - If there's trouble on the power line, it has
always been the machine that
> > glitches first, alerting me to trouble,
and giving me warning that I
> > probably want to yank plugs out of the wall
quick if I want to keep the
> > other hardware from getting hit by something
ugly. Not this time. The 7600
> > has always been the "tank" of my collection
- NOTHING phases it. But it was
> > the only hardware in the house that so
much as flickered. Even the lights
> > (which frequently start showing visible
flickering with just a 10 volt
> > "wiggle" on the line) remained dead-steady,
and the fridge, which literally
> > shrieks when we get a power-glitch, ran
on rock-steady.
> > 
> > Guess I'll have to chalk this one up to "Who knows
what happened?"
> > 
> > Don Bruder -  dakidd at sonic.net      <--- Preferred
Email - unmunged
> > I will choose a path that's clear: I will choose Free
Will! - N. Peart
> > 
> > 
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