[Soekris] How do I handle complete locks?

[Matty]

On Sat, 14 Oct 2006, Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote:

> Hi,
>
> 	I have a 4508 installed at a location where I don't have 24*7
> access to it. It crashed 2 weeks ago, and I thought it was just
> FreeBSD not able to FSCK a file system. When I here today, the
> power light was on solid, and the net blinked, but I couldn't get
> a console of any sort. Is there something if it happens again I
> can do?

Hi Tuc,

You might check to see if FreeBSD has a hardware watchdog daemon 
available. I have been using the OpenBSD watchdog daemon (watchdogd)
on my net4801-60 to recover from system hangs, and it works like
a charm. Check out the following blog entry if you want to learn
more:

http://prefetch.net/blog/index.php/2006/09/03/openbsd-watchdog-daemon-watchdogd/

Thanks,
- Ryan
--
UNIX Administrator
http://prefetch.net