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The system ran on Unix, and I

turned on every logging system

available. I went home that night,

hoping that I would find the computer

on the next morning, but it was off

again, and I received more irate

phone calls. The next night, I moved

the server to the side and tried

another one, but it was also off the

next morning.

I started looking for patterns. I

checked the other eight days. First, I

found that the logs all showed that the

computer went off at almost the same

time each day, just after five o’clock

a.m. All logs showed nothing beyond

that early morning time, so it had to