[AuckLUG] POWER OUTAGES OVER NIGHT

[Nevyn]

Hi Alan,

I'm not entirely sure where the connection is between slingshot and a
computer rebooting.

For your Windows problem, chances are it's a case of automatic updates
- they tend to want to reboot your computer and force you to do it.
It's lost me quite a bit of work due to leaving something open and
having gotten up to make a cup of coffee or the like and not being
quick enough to tell it not to reboot the computer.

However, Kmail crashing might have something to do with the problem I
was/am having. Every night around 2 (usually at around 10 to 2) my
internet connection seems to disconnect. I'm not sure if this is due
to slingshot or whether due to my once monitored security alarm which
doesn't have a filter doing nasty things to the phone line.

In otherwords, more information is needed. For the first problem, see
if you can find out what time updates are coming down for Windoze and
for the second, download a large file overnight and have something
monitoring network traffic so that you can see when the connection
appears to disconnect. (IPCop includes traffic graphs which is great
for this sort of thing).

(oh and this is the first and last time I dispense with Windoze advice
on this mailing list)

On 5/8/07, Alan Nicholson <alan.nicholson at janal.co.nz> wrote:
> Not strictly a Linux problem but I wonder if anyone else has been having
> similar problems.
>
> Every morning, although I have Kmail (Under OpenSues 10.2) running it seems to
> have locked up and won't download my emails. I have to close Kmail, wait a
> few minutes and then open it again,log on and all my mail downloads.
>
> Figured it was a bug in Kmail or OpenSuse and have not got around to having a
> look on the net to see if it is listed. Not very Linux savvy but trying to
> improve
>
> However I now find that my wife who has a dual boot machine running Windoze
> and Kubuntu has a similar problem. She prefers to run Windoze but the machine
> is set to boot into Kubuntu on startup - she selects Windoze manually. Every
> morning lately she has been complaining that the machine has the Kubuntu
> logon screen showing and she has to restart her machine to load Windoze.
>
> We are both with Slingshot as our ISP
>
> This seems to indicate that both machines are shutting down over night for
> some reason - course a may be totally wrong there, However if this is the
> case why is my machine still running Kmail as the open app - but seems to be
> logged off while hers appears to have completely rebooted.
>
> No point in me ringing Slingshot yet as, as soon as they hear "Linux" they
> tune out!
>
> Any suggestions on how I can pinpoint the problem so that I can try to sort
> it.
>
> Oh...and I am quite new to Linux so I'd appreciate it if it could be in
> language a relatively new Windoze convert can undertand.
>
> Alan
>
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