System Crash Troubleshooting

[John Wendel]

Tim Alberts wrote:
> Here's another whacky thing about the system I'm currently running that's got these session messages.
> 
> The system logger is restarting every hour?
> 
> # cat /var/log/messages | grep syslog
> Feb 26 04:02:06 msi2 syslogd 1.4.1: restart.
> Feb 26 05:00:03 msi2 syslogd 1.4.1: restart.
> Feb 26 06:00:03 msi2 syslogd 1.4.1: restart.
> Feb 26 07:00:03 msi2 syslogd 1.4.1: restart.
> Feb 26 08:00:03 msi2 syslogd 1.4.1: restart.
> Feb 26 09:00:03 msi2 syslogd 1.4.1: restart.
> Feb 26 10:00:03 msi2 syslogd 1.4.1: restart.
> Feb 26 11:00:03 msi2 syslogd 1.4.1: restart.
> Feb 26 12:00:03 msi2 syslogd 1.4.1: restart.
> 
> 
> I don't see this happening on my stable systems.  There is a major problem going on, anyone got some hints or ideas?
> 

Definitely strange. Don't see how this could be hardware related.

I think I'd try running rkhunter. Do you have tripwire installed?

Good luck,

John