Re: Constant reboots on FreeBSD

["Antonio Godinho" <antonio at nambu.uem.mz>]

I am definetely running at least 5 different kinds of motherboards 
with assorted NICīs.

 

> On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 11:05:42AM +0200, Antonio Godinho wrote:
> > At first I thought it had something to do with squid but later
> > discovered that even removing squid the problem still happens. Could
> > this be a problem with NAT or firewall?
> 
> Try looking at past bug reports on www.freebsd.org, since you are
> running a very old FreeBSD (4.4 is most recent)
> 
> > Many times when the machine reboots squid fails to load and as a
> > result all proxy services are down.
> 
> That should be easier to pin down. As well as log files have a look at
> "dmesg" or simply watching the bootup process at the console.
> 
> > Does anyone have any ideas? I canīt find anything in the logs or any
> > core dumps.
> 
> I am no expert at getting core dumps but you might want to check:
> 
> $ sysctl -a | grep core
> kern.sugid_coredump: 0     --> coredumps for setuid/setgid programs
> kern.coredump: 1           --> other coredumps (I guess)
> kern.corefile: %N.core
> 
> (this had me foxed with Exim for a while, until I realised that it was
> setuid, although I don't think your squid will be running setuid)
> 
> Otherwise, are your various PCs very different, i.e. from different
> vendors, different motherboards etc? If not there may be some common
> hardware problem.
> 
> B.



Antonio Godinho
B.Sc., MCP, MCP+Internet, MCSE, CCNA
Address:Av. Julius Nyerere 947 3rd floor esq 
Maputo - Mozambique
Phone  : 258-82-300392
e-mail : ANTONIO at nambu.uem.mz

                     

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