From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 10 19:33:45 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA23823 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 19:33:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from java.dpcsys.com (java.dpcsys.com [206.16.184.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA23818 for ; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 19:33:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dpcsys.com) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by java.dpcsys.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id TAA25346; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 19:33:59 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 19:33:59 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Busarow To: Ken Allan cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Remote Administration of Webservers In-Reply-To: <19990111092644.C7461@agamemnon.imgmkt.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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