Solaris

Hello Everyone ,

I am a new member to this forum and came to know about this from so many of my friends . I face one issue last day when suddenly the system got rebooted ( But don,t know why ) . Can someone please help me in investigating this issue as to why the system got rebooted and who initiated this . Where the logs for this reboot would be and the advanced commands to check if any .

Thanks a lot in advance !

Hi gera_sachin125,

Before running any commands always check your man pages for backround & detailed information;

example :

<snip start>
bash-2.05$ man more
Reformatting page. Please Wait... done

User Commands more(1)

NAME
more, page - browse or page through a text file
<snip end>

HELP WITH YOUR INVESTIGATIONS

This may help you along, your log file for system messages are located in /var/adm;

as root user or with root permission, do;


root@Hostname# more /var/adm/messages

(This will provide you with system information of reboots and other activites which have taken place on the host system)

root@hostname# tail -50 /var/adm/sulogs

(This will provide you with the last 50 lines of the entries in /var/adm/sulog, all users who have logged in as root, or logged in as a standard user & has become root)


I hope this is of help

Jnike

Thanks so much for the reply Jnike. I indeed found out the last user who login and then switch to root . But in the end it was all thanks to a Tape Librarian who gave a Hard Reboot to the machine...I cant find out any log for this in /var/adm/messages .

Thanks for the help !!

Glad to be of help

Jnike

Check also your Hardware. This also can be the reason that Solaris rebooted.
Connected your Solaris to Internet or Intranet?