Re: Server reboots
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 02:17:57AM +0100, pf@csite.com wrote:
> Hey there.
> I've just had the pleasure of a server which rebootet itself, and found it's
> ext2fs partition to be unclean. Now, I wonder if that could be a security
> problem in the direction of some nasty person having fun with me? Or is it
> just deffective hardware/software setup?
> (The kernel shouldn't reboot automatically on oops'es and panics unless you
> tell it to, or am I wrong?)
>
If the machine still has working interrupts, it should reboot after 180
seconds, or whatever you set the timeout to. Do a grep for 180 in the ppc
code, since this is ppc specific. I think there may even be a /proc
interface, but I'm not sure.
Mike
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