I returned home one day to find my SPARCstation 5 had apparently been rebooted without my interaction and the screen held messages indicating: Watchdog Reset Externally Initiated Reset The "Externally Initiated" part worries me. My box IS connected to the outside world via Internet, but I'm still living under the delusion that Unix, in all it's forms, especially Solaris, isn't quite as vulnerably open to exploitation as other (FEATURE of the Day, Windows?) OSs. So I'll presume it's something local - hardware or OS setup. Although it was visible, the <ok> prompt was inert (keyboard linked to DEVNULL?). Within the next 48 hours, it rebooted - apparently at the behest of another anonymous maleficent daemon and got to the point of "Initiating memory," where it has halted, with the keyboard still seemingly linked to DEVNULL. For personal reasons, I don't have the resources I once had for dealing with such grief and would appreciate any hints as to what I should look at/for and attempt. (Tell me where to poke, and with what, and I'll have a go.) Thanx to any who offer assistance.

Just seeing what a message from someone else at <computing.net> in response to a post looks like. So now we know