Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 14 Sep 1999 19:58:14 +0100 | From | Steve Dodd <> | Subject | Re: reboot after oops? |
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On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 08:49:56AM -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, Yoink! wrote: > > > I've been having a problem with a linux box oopsing. (Probably hardware, if > > not, I'll post the oopsen later.) My question is this: is it possible to > > configure a linux box to reboot itself after an oops? If not, why? [snip]
> The reason for a 'panic' is so the machine is halted long enough for > someone to find the problem. Registers, data values, etc., are preserved.
If it's important, it's probably worth investing in a hardware watchdog, to catch the (hopefully exceedingly rare) cases where the machine hangs rather than panic()ing.
Thinking about it: the kernel doesn't always panic on oopsen, does it? This probably needs to be settable via sysctl, a la reboot-on-panic.
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