On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Riley Williams wrote:
> > By the way, if you set /proc/sys/kernel/panic to a nonzero value
> > (it's a seconds count) panics will reboot the machine after N
> > seconds. Unfortunately it's a dirty reboot, but it's helluva lot
> > better than a hang for a production server.
>
> I have to admit that I wasn't aware of this, but then, so many of
> the files in /proc are best described as "Mysterious Magic" in
> that even the units the values are specified in are not obvious.
Maybe you should try reading the documentation in
Documentation/sysctl/ ? :)
cheers,
Rik
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