Wenchi Liao wrote:
>Frank Kardel wrote:
>>> In article <199908191637.LAA20783@harper.uchicago.edu>,
>>> Wenchi Liao <wliao@midway.uchicago.edu> wrote:
>>> >I've been pretty happy with my netbsd 1.4/i386 box so far.
>
>>> >For some reason, the machine will reboot in the middle of
>>> >the night. I don't think this is some wierd exploit/trojan
>
>>I do run 1.4J (current-19990821) and i DO see the reboot pattern

>I played around with this. It isn't just amanda; going to
>another machine and doing "rsh nbsd-box /sbin/dump -0 -f-
>/fs > /dev/null" will trigger the reboot. However, fs seems
>to be a certain size before it reboots; so, / on my machine
>will be dumpable, but not /usr (OTOH, / is dumped
>uncompressed, while /usr is compressed).
>
>If I run a kernel without apm support compiled in, then
>things seem fine. I've been dumping over the network all
>afternoon w/o problems. Whereas, this morning with my usual
>1.4/1.4.1 kernel (w and w/o rnd), the rsh line above is a
>guaranteed take down.

OK..I take this back. I can't reboot the machine by remote
rsh anymore, but the machine still reboots during an amanda
run.

WL