Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 09:37:01 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: Web server locks up... but not quite. (?) Message-ID: <199602190837.JAA11590@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199602190603.WAA10557@mandor.dev.com> from "Brian Smith" at Feb 18, 96 10:03:34 pm
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As Brian Smith wrote: > > > Brian, if you got physical access to the box, try placing a simple > > card into the PC that hooks ISA pins A1/B1 to a pushbutton. > >Anyone with a good source of ready-made cards? > I hate to suggest this, since it is both risky and a dangerous hack, > but if you can get the case off, and have a paper clip, an NMI is just > a moment away. The point was that this has to happen automagically in our case, since the machines are servers running absolutely unattended. (You've missed the part about the watchdog card between the first and second quote above.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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