From owner-freebsd-current Wed Aug 9 6:37: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from plains.NoDak.edu (plains.NoDak.edu [134.129.111.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AAD137B999 for ; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 06:37:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu) Received: (from tinguely@localhost) by plains.NoDak.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id IAA25610; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 08:36:54 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 08:36:54 -0500 (CDT) From: Mark Tinguely Message-Id: <200008091336.IAA25610@plains.NoDak.edu> To: doconnor@gsoft.com.au, scrappy@hub.org Subject: Re: hotmail now running win2000 Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, irwanhadi@iname.com, wonko@entropy.tmok.com Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On 09-Aug-00 The Hermit Hacker wrote: > > use something like netsaint to monitor those machines? and the APC master > > switch is web administered, so it would be too easy to build a quick perl > > script to trigger a power outlet correspondign to the partiular server > > that was n olonger responding ... > > Personally I would wire something up to the reset switch instead.. there are watchdog cards like the Berkshire to do this. I was asked to fix a Linux driver problem for one of these cards and wrote a FreeBSD driver for the card. Thankfully *BSD is stable enough that this board is not needed, but (trying to justify my time in doing the driver for BSD) the card also has a temperature feature that you could use with a ATX power supply and the FreeBSD 3.x/4.x init to shut off the machine if the internals get to hot. --mark tinguely To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message