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      godinperson
      last edited by

      Hi,

      I'm getting a weird issue on PFSense. Once in a while, sometimes more, I hear the booting sound from my pfsense but my firewall didn't reboot. Like this morning, I've heard it twice but my uptime still shows 12 days and I didn't loose my Internet connection. What can that be?

      2.1-RELEASE (i386)
      built on Wed Sep 11 18:16:22 EDT 2013
      FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE-p11

      nanobsd (4g)

      Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU D2500 @ 1.86GHz
      2 CPUs: 1 package(s) x 2 core(s)

      Thanks

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        rjcrowder
        last edited by

        Makes a short "chirp" when you login via the web UI… that's not what your hearing, is it?

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          godinperson
          last edited by

          No, really the booting sounds. When you boot the firewall, it does 4 sounds. I get that sound

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            godinperson
            last edited by

            Heard it 3 times today!

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              firewalluser
              last edited by

              Are you in a position to uninstall and reinstall the firewall from scratch, maybe something didnt "take" or something during installation?

              Failing that can you go back to version 2.0 and see what happens then?

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                godinperson
                last edited by

                Not really. It was kind of a pain to install. No CD-Rom, installed on a USB Stick and it's a Production firewall. I would rather find what's causing this. Must be a trigger somewhere.

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                  godinperson
                  last edited by

                  Anything? I hear the sound 3-4 times per day.

                  Thanks

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                  • GruensFroeschliG
                    GruensFroeschli
                    last edited by

                    You could disable the sound completly:
                    System–>Advanced-->Notifications-->System Sounds

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                    • jimpJ
                      jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                      last edited by

                      It wouldn't play that sound unless it was actually rebooting. The only place in the base system that calls "beep.sh startup" is in /etc/rc and that only runs at boot time. No packages call beep.sh either.

                      The shutdown beep (ends on a low note, not a high one) gets run from system_reboot_cleanup() and that in turn only gets called from functions that shut the system down.

                      So if you are hearing the beeps and the system isn't actually rebooting, someone must have manually added some code somewhere to run beep.sh, perhaps in a cron job.

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                        godinperson
                        last edited by

                        Someone or something.

                        I hear it 3-4 times a day. Around 8:00-8:30am, I hear it every morning but my uptime shows: 31 Days 13 Hours 27 Minutes 56 Seconds

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                          godinperson
                          last edited by

                          I have a Spiceworks server that connects from time to time to get my machine states. Could that be it?

                          It connects through SSH

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                          • jimpJ
                            jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                            last edited by

                            That would depend on the commands being run by that server when it collects information

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                              godinperson
                              last edited by

                              Spiceworks will use these commands/files/methods:
                              dmidecode
                              /etc/resolv.conf
                              SNMP
                              dmidecode or lshw
                              /proc/meminfo
                              hostname
                              uname -a
                              finger
                              ifconfig -a

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                                godinperson
                                last edited by

                                Close the question. I AM SO NEWB.

                                I had an old pfsense who kept rebooting by itself due to hardware issue. So I changed it but left the old one there but close. After a electricity breakdown, it went back by itself. So what I was hearing was the old one rebooting.

                                Had to switch from nanobsd to full to realized that. While the new pfsense was shutdown, I hear the startup sound. DAH!!!

                                Thanks for your help guys…. sorry

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