I just had a totally unnecessary downtime because obviously someone rebooted my server. I have apache and another webserver set to NOT start automatically because I run a rather experimental (but well working) setup so I haven't set the 2 web server to start automatically.

So after the mysterious and unnecessary reboot the server came to an halt, it ran smoothly just recently, but due to my setup the web servers didn't start after the reboot - which I guess someone from the host made for what reason EVER

is there an easy way to evaluate this, to find out who rebooted the server? Not if someone rebooted it hard, or if there was a short power outage or?

more /var/log/messages
dmesg | more

Thanks, I tried that and there was a reboot, however I couldn't figure out more than that.

This is scary, will have to get it running automatically so both web servers start next time if someone feels like rebooting it again. If I wasn't at my home computer checking stats at the same time I would have left the desktop and the server would have been offline for half a day :blush:

Then somethin prolly cored or your provider rebooted it.

It says something about apmd, maybe some power issue. Anyway it alerted me to finally fix the server so it will start all needed servers at reboot, which I am doing now...

great...works now. I should thank my host for forcing me to fix this ;)