> As someone else recommended, check /var/log/messages. If you do not find
> anything useful there, do you have another machine you could connect with

the /var/log/messages was the first place i looked and everything was ok.

> a serial cable to ttya and constantly monitor the console output?  Then,
> the next time it dropped to "ok" you would be able to see if there were
> any few error messages just before "ok".

i did this yesterday and wait for some "action".

> For example, if you had another UNIX machine named "hrothgar", connect the
> serial cable to the ttya of the sick SPARC-2, and run "tip" (or kermit) on
> hrothgar. Verify that you see a login prompt. Then just leave tip running
> and check it next time the SPARC-2 crashes.  

i am running ecu on my workpc and look what is happening.

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gruesse 

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