Graceful server reboot triggered a forceful one?

yagami_kira

• October 22, 2017 01:10

Today, while logging-in to WHM I noticed an error on top right corner: "The system"s core libraries or services have been updated. reboot the server to ensure the system benefits from these updates." So that's what I did, I logged-in via SSH, typed reboot, and the server rebooted. Now, I want to look into the log file to see the entire reboot process including the time it took to finish the entire graceful reboot process here /var/log/messages However, the above log did not show the detailed reboot process, and there's no mention on the log that Graceful shutdown was being requested. Can that happen wherein a graceful reboot process won't get logged? But it appeared the server have done a forceful reboot and ignored my reboot SSH command. Are there such cases where the server will do a Forceful Reboot even though I just explicitly used the SSH command "reboot" and not "reboot -f" ?

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  yagami_kira

  • October 22, 2017 12:09

  Issue solved by a cPanel Technical Analyst. It appeared not every instances of reboot is logged, so you need to use journalctl instead of /var/log/messages .

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  cPanelMichael

  • October 23, 2017 13:21

  Hello, I'm happy to see your question was answered. Thank you for updating us with the outcome.

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