System Crash Troubleshooting

[Jim Cornette]

John Wendel wrote:
> 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
> 

Isn't the file.msi a microsoft installer file? Is it possible that you 
are getting problems in through the windows world?

Jim

-- 
Well fix that in the next (upgrade, update, patch release, service pack).