Re: Cause for the system reboot

From: Nathan (nathan_at_nospam.org)
Date: 08/25/05 

Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 10:26:52 -0500

I would suggest you put a stop to the automated error report clearing.
There's nothing wrong with leaving it intact, AIX will automaticly
rotate and trim the logs to minimum space usage for you. At the very
least keep a weeks worth archived some place. If this happens again you
can be prepared for it.

puliee wrote:
> Hi All
>
> I am working with old system 7026 - B80, the system was restarted
> abnormally. We were not aware while the system was reboot as it was in
> midnight. I need to know the cause for this reboot.
>
> I have checked the following things...
>
> 1.Checked error with errpt command, unfortunately error logs gets
> clears at frequent interval, I could not get the error for that period.
> So, this option is ruled out.
>
> 2.No peak process was there during the time.
>
> 3.Disk space issue was not there.
>
> 4.cheked /var/adm/messages, but, nothing got logged with. In my
> syslogd.conf, all were asked to log into /var/adm/messages.
>
> 5.checked with "last" command, it shows reboot @hh:mm, no other
> information like "whose login and ip address", so, it was not reboot by
> anybody and maybe through other actions.
>
> 6.Checked is there any dumps, no dump is created for that time.
> sysdumpdev -L shows, dump of year back.
>
> plz help me in this case...
>
> thanks in advance...