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woot !!!! $ uptime 10:34am up 15 days, 22 min, 3 users, load average: 1.86, 2.06, 2.06 so it was damn mysql 4.1.1a version ! I've send an email to mysql but I doubt very much that they will *believe* it :-) i hope this version of mysql (4.1.10a) doesnt bomb out after 20-30 days ...

most probably cmos battery is dying. take the battery out and goto your local walgreen/riteaid/cvs etc. they have batteries for pda, hearing aid etc. the cmos battery is similar. All my mobos use cr2032 battery which is quite standard in other devices. i bought 10 cr2032 from fleabay for $4 :-)

Update: 8+ days and still strong. So I very much suspect something fishy about the mysql 4.1.1-alpha-standard. Now I'm running mysql 4.1.10a-standard. That is the only component I changed in my configuration. Current uptime $ uptime 9:02am up 8 days, 22:51, 3 users, load average...

fdisk format command.com :-) comspec ?

i checked crontab. That was the very first thing I did. You can also look at /var/log/cron file. There is a time stamp and it lists any task which it is about to run. So, if it was cron issue, there would have a log in the file. Here is a sample of what the /var/log/cron looks like. Well...

go for XP. I'm running it on a P3-450 with 128mb sdram. kids PC, so its okay with them as long as they can surf the internet and write word documents

i did check for a rootkit etc sometime back. didnt find anything out of the ordinary. hopefully, mysql upgrade will fix it. if it crashes again at 7:30am, I'll simply reinstall new OS.

update: last week, I upgraded to mysql 4.1.10a-standard. So, far the system is stable and no morning crashes at 7:30am. >uptime 2:44pm up 7 days, 18:24, 4 users, load average: 1.47, 1.77, 1.60

randalee, no reboots after 29th. the reboots normally happen anywhere from 3-5 days.

Okay, will kill the cron at 7:25 and restart it at 7:35 :-) But I dont think cron is at issue. I dont see any thing running in the /var/log/cron at 7:25-7:30am time frame. At the same time, it doesnt list any jobs scheduled by the at command. At 7:25am, no one is in the laundary room...

Hmmm.. I also installed the Xvnc server around that time. Lots of new stuff added a) mysql server b) libcurl/libssl c) Xvnc (vncserver) in KDE enviroment I gotta hookup the monitor to the box and watch for any messages between 7:25 and 7:30 everyday !

bersl2, On sunday, I ran a script which changed the date and time to 7:25AM and then sleep for 10 mins. And then change the date to next day, and time back to 7:25am. date 01010725 sleep 600 date 01020725 sleep 600 ....... The script ran fine till Dec 31st, 2005. I was hoping...

I probably also added libCurl at the same time. But I'll be very worried if a userlevel application/library can crash the kernel ! Then what's the difference between windoze and unix ?

I'm running RH 7.2 (I know its old) since 2001. The kernel is upgraded to 2.4.29. I think my problems have started happening after I've upgraded mysql server last May. Everything else is constant on the box. Its so bizzare that it happens like a clock work ! It happened againt yesterday ...

dont have console hooked up. At 7:26am, everything is suddenly quiet. Network traffic drops, number of process/second drops, even the disk activity stops. As if system is dead or held hostage. Then right at 7:30 it reboots (or crashes). May be I'll remove/rename reboot and shutdown commands...