Re: bbs for debian?
On Thu, Feb 26, 1998 at 04:29:12PM +0100, Pere Camps wrote:
> > So I have a cronjob to kill dosemu daily, and dosemu runs from a script
> > which just runs it over and over again. Same as the power reset on
> > the old machine, but nicer. You could also have an external event
> > from your mailer to run EXITEMU instead of the kill. My system survived
> > ok for 12 days while I was overseas like this.
>
> It's a good idea to do this. We were thinking about the
> possibility of an external watchdog for our DOS machine, but I think we
> will be able to save that with Linux.
Yes I had one of those timers you put on your power points (for
lights while you're away on holiday etc) on my DOS system. Horrid
but effective. Much nicer under Linux.
Hamish
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