Re: netbsd 6 instance on amazon

[matthew sporleder <msporleder%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 7:10 AM, el kalin <kalin%el.net@localhost> wrote:
>
>
> hi all...
>
> i'm running an netbsd 6 (6.0 NetBSD 6.0 (XEN3_DOMU) amd64) instance on
> amazon since december last year. everything was working nicely until about 2
> months ago when the system sporadically started rebooting itself. it happens
> once a week on average. sometimes twice. the last line in the messages log
> always looks like this:
>
> ^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@
> ^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@Nov  2
> 07:21:55 ip-10-62-123-59 syslogd[310]: restart
>
>
> it always happens right before the default daily cron (which is set for 3:15
> am by default). around 3:12 am.
>
> the only things the machine runs are httpd and mysqld..
>
> has anybody experienced this? i would greatly appreciate any thoughts that
> can resolve this problem...
>
> thanks...


Is there anything further up in the log to indicate a sender of that message?

Also, have you tried terminating and rebuilding (caveat data loss,
etc) to get onto another amazon host?