From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 19 00:49:55 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA12285 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 19 Feb 1996 00:49:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA12280 for ; Mon, 19 Feb 1996 00:49:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id JAA16343 for ; Mon, 19 Feb 1996 09:49:45 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA13206 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Mon, 19 Feb 1996 09:49:45 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id JAA11590 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Mon, 19 Feb 1996 09:37:02 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199602190837.JAA11590@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Web server locks up... but not quite. (?) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 09:37:01 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199602190603.WAA10557@mandor.dev.com> from "Brian Smith" at Feb 18, 96 10:03:34 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)