Re: Auto reboot on power failure


Subject: Re: Auto reboot on power failure
From: Bill Fink (billfink@mindspring.com)
Date: Fri Nov 16 2001 - 20:09:53 MST


On Fri Nov 16 2001, Brian Watson wrote:

> My server was down for 3 days this week. The server is at my
> parents' house, and it happened to go down on Tuesday. (I couldn't
> do much about it because they're gone until tomorrow and I didn't get
> home until today.) I'm on an old world system (6500/300). I know
> that OS 9 had auto restart features, but that doesn't work with YDL.
> (I thought it might have toggled something in open firmware?)
> Anyway, is there a way I can setup YDL to auto restart if there is a
> power failure? (My UPS can only handle about 30 minutes.)

Hi Brian,

Check out my earlier post on this subject at:

        http://lists.linuxppc.org/linuxppc-user/200005/msg01454.html

This should work fine on older systems that have an ADB bus.
I use it on a 7500 that I use for my home router.

I hope it helps.

                                                -Bill



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