[Sheflug] Software watchdog

[José Luis Gómez Dans <nospam [at] sheffield.ac.uk>]

Hi,
	We have a couple of web servers running nicely and happily
churning PHP/MySQL queries around. Because I maintain them, and I enjoy
going on holidays and basically forgetting about this, I was thinking of
ways to make my life easier.

	It would be nice to have some sort of software watchdog
implemented in the kernel that would reset the computer if anything went
wrong. If the box was to crash and get locked without rebooting, we
would get a considerable amount of downtime. If it reboots, then fine.

	Not that it has ever crashed:
$ uptime
  1:41pm  up 166 days, 18:38,....
(and that was because we had to phisically move the box to another
building. All in all, more than a year without rebooting), but it'd be
nice to have that to amaze the local intelligentsia :-)

	Regards
	José
-- 
José L Gómez Dans			PhD student
Tel: +44 114 222 5582			Radar & Communications Group
FAX; +44 870 132 2990			Department of Electronic Engineering
					University of Sheffield UK
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