detecting what does a reboot

detecting what does a reboot

Jonathan Ben Avraham yba at tkos.co.il
Sun Jun 8 13:04:02 IDT 2014


Hi Ido,
If the reboot occurs as a result of a hardware fault, you might never see 
anything in the logs. AFAIK nothing in the Centos 5 configuration does 
a reboot on its own.

  - yba


On Sun, 8 Jun 2014, ik wrote:

> Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2014 12:11:15 +0300
> From: ik <idokan at gmail.com>
> To: linux-il <linux-il at cs.huji.ac.il>
> Subject: detecting what does a reboot
> 
> Hello
> 
> I have a server (old centos 5) that does sometimes few times a reboot, in random hours.
> I removed non root permissions to execute halt, reboot and shutdown, but I wish also to try and track down what causing that reboot.
> 
> Is there a way to audit-trail or just log any kind of rebooting request (including system calls), and finding out what or whom execute
> it ?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ido
> 
>

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