[plug] kernel panic tip

[Chris Caston]

Any idea if this brings or can be setup to bring a graceful shutdown?

I've had a server kernel panic and found the only thing I could do was
to reset manually afterwhich it came back up and required a lot of
fscking to clean up all the messed up inodes.

After a few iterations of this it stop booted and had to be cleanly
reinstalled.

On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 00:20, Bernard Blackham wrote:
> Something I just discovered that might be useful for those with
> shaky servers or hard-to-access machines. If you specify panic=<x>
> on the commandline where x is some positive integer, then if your
> machine should ever panic, it will reboot after x seconds.
> 
> Some may argue that if the machine panics then there's probably
> something quite seriously wrong that needs attention. But if it's a
> machine that sits in a hidden corner and you really don't want to
> have to go find it... well, it might save some heartache to someone :)
> 
> Bernard.