Tim, thanks for booting the machine up. Did you notice anything? It looks like it had a regular shutdown. From syslog: May 19 04:30:01 nebka /USR/SBIN/CRON[21097]: (root) CMD (/sbin/shutdown -h now >

/dev/null 2>&1) May 19 04:30:01 nebka /USR/SBIN/CRON[21099]: (www-data) CMD ([ -x /usr/lib/cgi-b in/awstats.pl -a -f /etc/awstats/awstats.conf -a -r /var/log/apache/access.log ] && /usr/lib/cgi-bin/awstats.pl -config=awstats -update >/dev/null) May 19 04:30:01 nebka /USR/SBIN/CRON[21101]: (root) CMD (test -x /usr/lib/atsar/ atsa1 && /usr/lib/atsar/atsa1) May 19 04:30:01 nebka /USR/SBIN/CRON[21103]: (root) CMD (test -x /usr/sbin/fchec k && if ! /usr/sbin/fcheck -asxrf /etc/fcheck/fcheck.cfg /var/run/fcheck.out 2> &1; then mailx -s "ALERT: [fcheck] `hostname --fqdn`" root </var/run/fcheck.out ; /usr/sbin/fcheck -cadsxlf /etc/fcheck/fcheck.cfg ; fi ; rm -f /var/run/fcheck. out) May 19 04:30:01 nebka shutdown[21104]: shutting down for system halt May 19 04:30:01 nebka init: Switching to runlevel: 0 May 19 04:30:05 nebka spamd[26045]: spamd: server killed by SIGTERM, shutting do wn May 19 04:30:10 nebka mysqld_safe[21226]: ended May 19 04:30:13 nebka ntpd[25939]: ntpd exiting on signal 15 May 19 04:30:15 nebka named[25997]: shutting down: flushing changes May 19 04:30:15 nebka named[25997]: stopping command channel on 127.0.0.1#953 May 19 04:30:15 nebka named[25997]: no longer listening on ::#53 May 19 04:30:15 nebka named[25997]: no longer listening on 127.0.0.1#53 May 19 04:30:15 nebka named[25997]: no longer listening on 137.99.31.70#53 May 19 04:30:15 nebka named[25997]: exiting May 19 04:30:15 nebka kernel: Kernel logging (proc) stopped. May 19 04:30:15 nebka kernel: Kernel log daemon terminating. May 19 04:30:16 nebka exiting on signal 15 May 20 16:37:27 nebka syslogd 1.4.1#18: restart.

Then I found this in /etc/crontab: # Shutdown for power outage on May 19th. (Tim R. 5/15/07) 30 4 19 5 * root /sbin/shutdown -h now >> /dev/null 2>&1 strangely, this does not show when I do 'crontab -l' In any case, in order to plan for the next emergency, my travel schedule is here :-) http://ideas.repec.org/zimm/personal/calendar.html Christian Zimmermann FIGUGEGL! Department of Economics University of Connecticut 341 Mansfield Road, Unit 1063 Storrs, CT 06269-1063 http://ideas.repec.org/zimm/ christian.zimmermann@uconn.edu http://ideas.repec.org/e/pzi1.html