RE: Automatic Reboot, Fsck and a PCI HW-Watchdog

["Brian E.W. Wood" <beww intac com>]

On 31-May-98 Gavin wrote:
> Hi 
> 
> How would i best reboot my alpha say .. every 24 hours ? 
> shutdown command in a cron job .. would that woek .. (and be a good
> idea)?
> and could the init script in RH 5.0 be modified so that fsck runs .. no
> matter what ?
> eaven when the FS is damaged .. 

Why on earth would you want to do this? If you have to re-boot every day (or
even every month) something is seriously wrong. 

As for "detecting" crashes, by definition a crash means things are not running,
so how could the system "detect" this fact. You might have another machine test
yours, to see if it responds to certain requests and thereby "detect" if it is
down, but other than taking over its tasks I'm not sure what else it could do
about it.

Linux systems are designed not to crash, and if they do you should discover the
reason why, not work around it by re-booting at intervals (IMHO).


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Brian E.W. Wood  beww@intac.com