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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:16857 comp.os.os2.misc:127999 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.hawaii.edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!purdue!mozo.cc.purdue.edu!staff.cc.purdue.edu!spm From: spm@staff.cc.purdue.edu (Sean P. McDermott) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.os2.misc Subject: Re: 486 machines that don't (always?) reboot Date: 21 Feb 1995 22:42:27 GMT Organization: Purdue University Lines: 21 Message-ID: <3idq8j$3vj@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> References: <3hoc3r$fue@iaehv.IAEhv.nl> <3iagpt$29f@dagny.galt.com> <3id6tj$e7e@news.cloud9.net> <3id88d$3ol@gate.sinica.edu.tw> NNTP-Posting-Host: staff.cc.purdue.edu In article <3id88d$3ol@gate.sinica.edu.tw>, Carmay Lim <lim@gate.sinica.edu.tw> wrote: >Thor Lancelot Simon (tls@cloud9.net) wrote: >: [DELETE KEY HAPPY] >by in the morning to tap the button on the case... :( Ok, here is an idea for ya: design a watchdog card. It would be this easy: design a card so that it sits in an ISA slot, and ocasionally asks the kernel "Are you alive ?" Then wire your motherboard into it. Or, set up a serial device on another machine that does similar things. -- Sean "SPAM" McDermott Hopelessly Lost Undergrad and Consultant ----------------Life is Hard and then you die.----------------------