<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>Thank you all for replying:<br><br></div>(1) reboot is like pressing reset button, no warning, no shutdown warning, nothing at all<br></div>(2) It is an old server but I think I can get a couple memory syms - not even sure what kind they are<br>
</div>(3) I will try all of your suggestions starting with memory (very easy) and take it from there<br><br></div>Thank you all for your input!!!!<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 5:47 PM, Kenneth Brody <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kenbrody@spamcop.net" target="_blank">kenbrody@spamcop.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On 1/20/2014 4:36 PM, fpgroups . wrote:<br>
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Marked OT since the problem stems from the OS not filePro.<br>
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If I do: l |lp<br>
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directory listing prints no poblem ... If I print a report or anything<br>
from within my filePro application server reboots.<br>
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My printer is defined as lp -dlazen -o raw -s within printer configuration.<br>
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Same happens if I attempt to run a backup using<br>
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tar cfF - /tmp/list |gzip > /my_full_backup.gz<br>
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One more point is as it gets to "login" prompt after rebooting, it goes<br>
through boot cycle again. Not sure why but if I let it boot by itself, it<br>
is less likely to reboot before it gives me a "login" prompt - When I go<br>
through the motions of pressing ENTER and CTRL-D, it reboots after pressing<br>
CTRL-D.<br>
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I am in trouble I know, but how/what can I do to at least get a clean<br>
backup?<br>
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What sort of a reboot happens? Is it like pressing the reset button, where the system is suddenly and without warning going through the boot cycle? Is there a "panic" message prior to the reboot? (I'm not sure if there's a way to get OSR5 to not auto-reboot after a panic.) Does it start a "normal" shutdown/restart sequence? Something else entirely?<br>
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You might consider running a memory diagnostic on the system -- I've seen bad RAM produce some very strange symptoms over the years.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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Kenneth Brody<br>
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