G5 restarts everynight at the same time

Dual 2 ghz PowerPC G5
1.5 gb ram.
10.4.11
My work computer is a hand me down from another dept. IT does not support it due to its "age" so I cant ask them for help.
Since I have had it it will restart every night. And I am over it!
In the System Prefs under Security it is not set to log out after X minutes of inactivity.
" " Energy Saver it is not set to go to sleep
" " " There is no schedule set for shutting down/restarting etc
The other day I found a command to type into Terminal to show the log. Sure enough at the same time it was restarting.
I took the hard drive home and put it in my Intel PowerPC and it did the same thing there.
Thanks for any help with this.
Les

Is this a true start from power down or just a wake?
Is this machine on a UPS unit?
If Energy Saver preferences for UPS have automatic restart after power loss, you may have a situation where the UPS is cunducting a periodic self test and actually failing, which glitches the power and fakes the machine into thinking that it needs to do a reboot.
Is restart after power outage disabled on all Energy Saver settings?
You might see what is going on in the system log by opening Console in the /Applications/Utilities folder and clicking the Logs icon to reveal the log files available. Because of the daily housekeeping, you may need to reveal the files under /var/log and go down and find the older system.log files, which are zipped, but clicking on any of them will unzip it and load it into the console window.
System log entries are time-stamped, so you can see mostly what is going on.

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theme4=/usr/share/slim/themes/flower2
theme5=/usr/share/slim/themes/the-light
theme6=/usr/share/slim/themes/mindlock
theme7=/usr/share/slim/themes/parallel-dimensions
theme8=/usr/share/slim/themes/wave
theme9=/usr/share/slim/themes/fingerprint
#check you are running this script as super-user:
if [ $(id -u) != "0" ]; then
echo "You must be the superuser to run this script" >&2
exit 1
fi
echo "rotating themes"
#figure out which theme is currently set, then name it as the variable
#"last theme number", otherwise set last theme number as 0
if [ -f /usr/share/slim/themes/current/current_theme_number ]
then
echo "checking current theme"
cd /usr/share/slim/themes/current/
eval last_theme_number=$(cat /usr/share/slim/themes/current/current_theme_number)
echo $last_theme_number
else
echo "no theme is currently set, using theme 1"
last_theme_number=0
echo $1 > /usr/share/slim/themes/current/current_theme_number
fi
#set the new theme number
eval new_theme_number=$(($(($last_theme_number % $rotate_number))+1))
#select the new theme
placeholder=theme
eval new_theme=\$$placeholder$new_theme_number
echo $new_theme
#now clean out the "current" theme where I keep the current
#theme for slim
rm /usr/share/slim/themes/current/background*
rm /usr/share/slim/themes/current/panel*
rm /usr/share/slim/themes/current/slim.theme
#the wildcards are there since the themes use jpg and png files
cp $new_theme/background* /usr/share/slim/themes/current
cp $new_theme/panel* /usr/share/slim/themes/current
cp $new_theme/slim.theme /usr/share/slim/themes/current
#increase the theme number, but first clear the old file
rm /usr/share/slim/themes/current/current_theme_number
echo $new_theme_number > /usr/share/slim/themes/current/current_theme_number
#copy over the dummy wallpaper in "/usr/share/wallpapers" (with the theme
#background file
cp $new_theme/background* /usr/share/wallpapers/dummy
exit 0
Last edited by pseudonomous (2008-07-07 21:59:42)

oh i forgot to mention... its rotating while moving. i.e. is doesn't have to stop rotate and then continue back to origin.

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