system restarts (unknown cause)

[Darryl Clarke]

On 12/03/06, Jay Ridgley <jridgley2 at austin.rr.com> wrote:
> 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>
>

That doesn't incidicate your system was restarted, it just indicates
the system logger was restarted.  This is normal behaviour after log
rotation.

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

This shows that your system wasn't rebooted.

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