How to determine what causing the system being rebooted

Aaron Konstam akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Wed Feb 18 14:30:11 UTC 2009


On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 07:55 +0100, YaMe wrote:
> Hi,
> My system (Fedora Core 8) rebooted by itself this morning.
> There are few users using this system and i checked the /var/log/messages, i got this message:
> "Feb 18 07:53:18 rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd" swVersion="1.19.6" x-pid="1880"][x-configInfo udpReception="No" udpPort="514" tcpReception="No" tcpPort="0"] restart". Can i determine if the restart was initiated by user or the system rebooted it by itself? how to determine what cause the system reboot?
> 
> Thanks,
Try: lastcomm
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