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Date:      Mon, 11 Jan 1999 09:26:44 +1000
From:      Ken Allan <ken@freebsdrocks.com>
To:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Remote Administration of Webservers
Message-ID:  <19990111092644.C7461@agamemnon.imgmkt.com>

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I guess we kind of have a problem.

We have to remotely administer group of computers, and sometimes the
computers go down, and don't come back up.

Is there anything that we can do to make the rebooting process more
robust?

For example:

  Is there a modification that we can make to the boot manager to make
  it automatically default back to the kernel.old, and then the
  kernel.generic after a failed startup?

  Is there a way that we can get around a fsck error aborting the boot
  process to multiuser mode?

  Is there a way to hook up a console box or something the the freebsd
  box, so that if we recompile the kernel, and it fails to reboot, we
  can change kernels, or if there's a fsck error, that we can run
  fsck, and fix it up - even though the network hasn't yet started?

Has anyone done, or had experience with solving problems as above? Any
solutions?

Thanks,

Ken.

-- 
Ken Allan
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