<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On 11 November 2016 at 11:02, Nikhil Nair <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nnair@pobox.com" target="_blank">nnair@pobox.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Colin,<br>
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On Fri, 11 Nov 2016, Colin Law wrote:<br>
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If you look in /var/log/syslog then for a controlled reboot you will see messages indicating the system is shutting down<br>
(services stopping and so on), then messages indicating it is booting. For a power down the messages will simply stop, there<br>
will be no shutting down messages. Then the boot messages will appear.<br>
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Thanks, I would have expected that, but hadn't found any shutdown<br>
messages. After I read your message, I took another look, and there was<br>
one I'd missed - rsyslogd shutting down after receiving signal 15. No<br>
other messages about services shutting down, however: there was a gap of<br>
over a minute before that rsyslogd shutdown message, and a gap of about a<br>
minute after it before the startup messages started.<br>
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Is that normal?<br>
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In any case, there was an rsyslogd shutdown message for my deliberate<br>
reboot, but not for any of the other 4, so I guess that means it was a<br>
power cycle issue after all. Or, given that there was only one message in<br>
the deliberate reboot case, is that inconclusive?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>It is unusual that there are no other shutdown messages, Is this a real machine or a VPS? If it is a VPS then perhaps that is expected. I don't know.<br><br></div><div>Colin<br></div><div> <br></div></div></div></div>