[PLUG] system hangs...

[Jeff DeFouw]

On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Brent Meshier wrote:

> Is there a way to get Linux to reboot itself when it
> hangs?

There is a software watchdog kernel option in the standard kernel, which
requires a user-level daemon counterpart.  If the daemon stops telling the
kernel it's alive each minute the kernel will reboot the computer.  If
your kernel hangs, it can't do anything.  You need some watchdog hardware
to help with that.

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Jeff DeFouw <defouwj@purdue.edu>