[oclug] rebooting a hung linux box

[David F. Skoll]

On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, james terris wrote:

> I was thinking of using a relay to close the open the reset
> circuit on the hung box (basically the same thing as
> pressing the reset button) but I would need some sort of
> interface to that relay and a way to control it.

It's probably cheaper and easier to buy a hardware watchdog card.

See, for example, http://www.pcwd.de/ or
http://www.topology.org/pc/watchdog.html.

--
David.