I have woken today to find Dallas45 was rebooted but wasn't informed before hand. Caused a bit of grief because I found out 5 hours later!!

THe number of phone messages and emails I have is - well - astounding!

And to think uptime was doing so well too! Setup on 17 December 2007 and going strong till today.

My best ever server was one that ran from 1 April 1993 till 30 December 2006 - no reboots, no upgrades and it was the only power supply that never faulted in that period!

Mind you it was a 386 and PSU's were built better back then!

dallas45 was not rebooted recently:

root@dallas45:~# uptime 
 07:42:28 up 319 days, 12:44

-Tom

Just out of curiosity -- UML or Xen, and which kernel...? Any memory leaks ?

Cheers.

well someone managed to do it and it wasn't me!

JobID: 781790 - Lassie initiated boot
Job Entered 09/30/2008 02:45:29 PM Status Success
Host Start Date 09/30/2008 02:45:56 PM Host Finish Date 09/30/2008 02:45:59 PM
Host Duration 3 seconds Host Message



Is this a security issue?

OK ok, I get it

DUH! See I forgot about the watchdog



<pats Lassie and throws a pack of chocie doggie treats>


Now I'm baffled as to why!

That means that your linode went unresponsive, crashed, or shut itself down without the knowledge of the linode management system. Lassie noticed this and then, like a good dog should, restarted your linode.