Re: setting kernel panic to reboot

Miquel van Smoorenburg (miquels@q.cistron.nl)
22 Jul 1996 16:17:18 +0200

In article <9607211111.AA29506=aeb@zeus-184.cwi.nl>,
<Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl> wrote:
>Patrick Main:
>
>: for Linux 2.0 i ssee that linux/kernel/panic.c seems to have
>: the reboot on kernel panic patch developed for 1.3.57 already
>
>See proc(5) if you have recent manpages.

The file panic gives r/w access to the kernel
variable panic_timeout. If this is zero, the
kernel will loop on a panic; if nonzero it
indicates that the kernel should autoreboot after
this number of minutes.
^^^^^^^
should be seconds.

Mike.

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