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Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 18:21:30 +0200
From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To: Justin Heath <jheath@theplanet.com>
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Kernel debugging question
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On 2002-03-23 10:05, Justin Heath wrote:
> As far as I understand this will wait 15 seconds after dropping to
> reboot.
>
> Now for my question. Is there a way to configure this 15 second timeout
> value? I would like to configure this for a value of 10 minutes. This
> would give me a chance to hook up a console to an affected server before
> a reboot. Any suggestions or thoughts? Thanks.

Looking at the source of /sys/kern/kern_shutdown.c here's what I found:

	#ifndef PANIC_REBOOT_WAIT_TIME
	#define PANIC_REBOOT_WAIT_TIME 15 /* default to 15 seconds */
	#endif

So, unless I'm terribly mistaken, you can set PANIC_REBOOT_TIME to the
number of seconds you want the delay to last.

Giorgos Keramidas                       FreeBSD Documentation Project
keramida@{freebsd.org,ceid.upatras.gr}  http://www.FreeBSD.org/docproj/

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