system restarts (unknown cause)

[Jay Ridgley]

Folks,

I have been using Linux for several years and Ubuntu for a short time, 
however, I would like to know why my desktop restarts at about 07:40 CDT 
every day. The system is completely unattended. Is the there some 
scheduled task doing it? I have tried to list the crontab for root but 
am advised there is not one... (sudo cron -u root -l reports no crontab 
for root).

The /var/log/message file shows exiting on signal 15 then restart

<snip>
Mar 12 07:35:41 polar exiting on signal 15
Mar 12 07:35:42 polar syslogd 1.4.1#16ubuntu6: restart.
<snip>
 
I am used to having a desktop that stays up for MONTHS.

Ideas???

BTW uptime just reported -

20:13:22 up 19 days,  3:33,  5 users,  load average: 0.09, 0.08, 0.23

Regards,
Jay

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Jay Ridgley
jridgley2 at austin.rr.com