Since the 24th of November, one of the Linux machines I have been looking after seems to be rebooting itself at 6:58 every morning. This is the only reason I figured out there is a problem with the interface configuration problem with the machine (which I fixed this morning...there was no DEVICE token in the ifcfg file). I have checked in /var/log/messages and there is no indication as to why the box restarts. I get the normal stuff listed there and then I see syslog restarting followed by the rest of the boot messages... Any idea what might be going on or where i might investigate this further? Side bar: I just developed another new problem. http failed to come up this morning given this error: httpd: cannot determine local host name. Use the ServerName directive to set it manually. I specified ServerName in httpd.conf and it works but is there any danger to adding the manual setting and what might have caused this? /etc/sysconfig/network lists the correct hostname. After some more checking i remembered that I put a pointer to this machine in /etc/hosts and removing it seems to have stopped the error from occuring...any ideas as to why a self reference in /etc/hosts would cause the hostname lookup to fail? That seems strange. Thanks... ____________________________ Mike Neuharth ADCS Technology Specialist http://www.umn.edu/adcs E-Mail : mjn at umn.edu Page Mail : 6126486512 at page.metrocall.com http://nifty.dsl.visi.com/ ____________________________