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[Tim Writer]

Dipesh Shah <dipesh.shah-8GciS3w/T/I7cdpDWioORw at public.gmane.org> writes:

> Could it be your motherboard's CMOS battery is dying? I experienced a similar
> situation on a PC awhile back.

A dead CMOS battery should n't crash a (Linux) PC.  I've run PCs with dead
CMOS batteries for months.  It's a pain if you have to reboot (cuz the BIOS
will inevitably require human intervention) but once up, Linux will happily
run forever.

> On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 10:11:03 -0500, Sidney Shapiro <sidney-3Kd7Tu4o6f/sBN0MCq728g at public.gmane.org>
> wrote:
> 
> 
> > I have a Red Hat 7.3 server which has been shutting off in the middle of
> > the night for the past several days. Is there any way I can check a log
> > or somewhere else to find out what is going on? Where should I be
> > looking?

Small power outages or brownouts?  Cron job that exhausts all available
memory?  Have a look at /var/log/messages, some errors may have been logged
before the system shutdown.

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