On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 04:14:21PM +0200, Sami Halabi wrote:
> Hi,
> Upon panic no auto restart occurs.
> How do I know/activate these watchdogs?
> Sami

You can try starting watchdogd with 'service watchdogd onestart', and
have it automatically start during boot by adding
'watchdogd_enable="YES"' to rc.conf.

You can test by starting watchdogd and sending SIGKILL to it - if
everything's working properly, the system should reboot after the
timeout period (16s by default).

If you don't have a hardware watchdog (or have one that isn't supported
by any drivers), watchdogd will fail to start.

-Mark

> בתאריך 17 בינו 2013 15:35, מאת "Ian Lepore" <i...@freebsd.org>:
> 
> > On Thu, 2013-01-17 at 08:38 +0200, Sami Halabi wrote:
> > > btw: i don't see any options in my kernel config for KBD / Unatteneded ,
> > th
> > > eonly thing that mention its
> > > is: device ukbd
> > >
> > > Sami
> >
> > I think if you don't have any kdb options turned on, then a panic should
> > automatically store a crashdump to swap, then reboot the machine.  If
> > that's not working, perhaps it locks up trying to store the dump?
> >
> > If the hardware has a watchdog timer, enabling that might be the best
> > way to ensure a reboot on any kind of crash or hang.
> >
> > -- Ian
> >
> >
> > > On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 6:45 AM, Sami Halabi <sodyn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Its only a kernel option? There is no flag to pass to the loader?
> > > >
> > > > SAMI
> >  <>  17  2013 05:18,  "Ian Lepore" <i...@freebsd.org>:
> > > >
> > > > On Wed, 2013-01-16 at 23:27 +0200, Sami Halabi wrote:
> > > >> > Thank you for your response, very helpful.
> > > >> > one question - how do i configure auto-reboot once kernel panic
> > occurs?
> > > >> >
> > > >> > Sami
> > > >> >
> > > >>
> > > >> From src/sys/conf/NOTES, this may be what you're looking for...
> > > >>
> > > >> #
> > > >> # Don't enter the debugger for a panic. Intended for unattended
> > operation
> > > >> # where you may want to enter the debugger from the console, but still
> > > >> want
> > > >> # the machine to recover from a panic.
> > > >> #
> > > >> options         KDB_UNATTENDED
> > > >>
> > > >> But I think it only has meaning if you have option KDB in effect,
> > > >> otherwise it should just reboot itself after a 15 second pause.
> > > >>
> > > >> -- Ian
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >> >
> > > >> > On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 10:13 PM, John Baldwin <j...@freebsd.org>
> > wrote:
> > > >> >
> > > >> > > On Wednesday, January 16, 2013 2:25:33 pm Sami Halabi wrote:
> > > >> > > > Hi everyone,
> > > >> > > > I have a production box, in which I want to install new kernel
> > > >> without
> > > >> > > any
> > > >> > > > remotd kvn.
> > > >> > > > my problem is its 2 hours away, and if a kernel panic occurs I
> > got a
> > > >> > > > problem.
> > > >> > > > I woner if I can seg failsafe script to load the old kernel in
> > case
> > > >> of
> > > >> > > > psnic.
> > > >> > >
> > > >> > > man nextboot (if you are using UFS)
> > > >> > >
> > > >> > > --
> > > >> > > John Baldwin
> > > >> > >
> > > >> >
> > > >> >
> > > >> >
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Sami Halabi
> > > Information Systems Engineer
> > > NMS Projects Expert
> > > FreeBSD SysAdmin Expert
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