Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 19:33:59 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com> To: Ken Allan <ken@freebsdrocks.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Remote Administration of Webservers Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990110192932.17796E-100000@java.dpcsys.com> In-Reply-To: <19990111092644.C7461@agamemnon.imgmkt.com>
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On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, Ken Allan wrote: > 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? I don't think you really want either of these to happen without human intervention.. You may not notice and that could end up causing real problems, especially in the second case. > 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? I haven't tried it but you should be able to run a serial console into a RAS box like a PM2 and telnet to your serial port. Should be pretty close to sitting at a local serial console. Dan -- Dan Busarow 949 443 4172 Dana Point Communications, Inc. dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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