[NBLUG/talk] Servers rebooting every hour

[Scrappy Laptop]

--- Bob Blick <bbblick at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> Yep, no sleeping here. By the way, the two machines
> are 100 miles apart,
> and no other machines are rebooting. Period is more
> like 60 minutes and
> 35 seconds between reboots. I'm thinking some kind
> of rootkit that is
> flawed and didn't remove its reboot-after-60-minutes
> script.
> 
> It'll be a long night, but if anyone hears anything,
> please post it.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Bob
> 

*bonus* thought:
If you really get desparate, you might even write a
script that'll pipe ps,top or similar to a logfile
repeatedly and chron that to run one minute before
reboot, since the interval is so regular...




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