Re: reboot notifier priority definitions

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 11 Sep 2001 15:46:30 +0100 (BST)


> Even then: My servers do have watchdog cards. Unfortunately without the
> priority definitions the watchdog card was shut down prior to the oops. Thus,
> due to missing priority, the system did require hitting the reboot button.
> So some well defined priorization is still required.

Its generally a good idea not to use watchdog cards that have shutdown
sequences - you can easily hang in the BIOS and a reset then may fix the
box.
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