[GTALUG] server questions - - help needed

[William Park]

On Sun, Jun 03, 2018 at 02:47:13PM -0500, o1bigtenor via talk wrote:
> Greetings
> 
> I am quite new at running a server so hopefully the question isn't too
> out there.
> 
> My server has been operational for about a year and I am working on a
> number of different projects on it. Twice now (this last friday and 5
> weeks early I came into the office to find that the server has somehow
> been taken down and  has rebooted itself (process setup in the bios)
> but as it doesn't quite complete the boot process, I have to hit a key
> to tell it to continue and then finally to log in to read Debian
> (stable).

Who does the stopping?  BIOS or Linux kernel?

I ask because, my machine always stops at BIOS prompt when power comes
back.  I don't know why.  I set the BIOS to "power off" when power comes
back, so it should stay turned off, but it doesn't.

> 
> So I am trying to determine what may have caused the system to do a
> reboot, whilst I have my suspicions I want to figure out exactly what
> is happening to cause this kind of behavior. AIUI servers should be
> able to run happily for years without issues (barring hardware
> problems) so I want that kind of reliability. Where in /var/log will I
> be finding the most clues as to the events that lead up to this
> 'reboot'?

/var/log/message
/var/log/syslog
/var/log/debug


> 
> Thanks in advance!!
> 
> Dee
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