What I tend to do for those is just make the filesystems for that machine read-only.
This is inconvenient to set up/use for several reasons, but it helps make machines indifferent to surprise reboots. It's handy if the site has unreliable power (eg solar/battery out in the bush somewhere) or even simply because people don't realize random Soekris boxes in wiring cabinets might need to be shut down cleanly. -Anthony On Sat, 3 Oct 2009 11:14:16 -0300, "Jose Fragoso" <inet_use...@samerica.com> wrote: > Hi, > >> If that was a wisething to do, we would have already done so. In other >> words, it is not wise. It's foolish. >> >> -Otto > > I totally agree with you. This should not be in the release. > > However, I have a few obsd boxes working at places where I can > not reach with ease. What I want to avoid is telling a client > (who does not know anything about unix or Xbsd), by phone, to > run 'fsck -y', when the system does not boot, as a last resource, > before I have to go there myself. Sometimes, not even a console > is available. > > Thanks for your insight. > > Regards, > > Jose
