From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by neteng.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id TAA92740 for ; Sat, 20 Jun 1998 19:58:56 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: Received: (from majordomo-owner@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) id TAA93070 for linux-list; Sat, 20 Jun 1998 19:58:19 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (owner-linux@relay.engr.sgi.com) Received: from sgi.sgi.com (sgi.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.37]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id TAA15304 for ; Sat, 20 Jun 1998 19:58:17 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (LetherGlov@aol.com) Received: from imo14.mx.aol.com (imo14.mx.aol.com [198.81.17.4]) by sgi.sgi.com (980309.SGI.8.8.8-aspam-6.2/980304.SGI-aspam: SGI does not authorize the use of its proprietary systems or networks for unsolicited or bulk email from the Internet.) via ESMTP id TAA26919 for ; Sat, 20 Jun 1998 19:58:16 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (LetherGlov@aol.com) From: LetherGlov@aol.com Received: from LetherGlov@aol.com by imo14.mx.aol.com (IMOv14_b1.1) id 1KUa013455 for ; Sat, 20 Jun 1998 22:58:04 +2000 (EDT) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 20 Jun 1998 22:58:04 EDT To: linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: Running Linux on Linus Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Windows AOL sub 85 Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Hi, In response to the ideas floating around about running Linux on Linus, I think that before you give Bob Mende and William Earl tons of work configuring it (and rebooting), that If I understand things correctly it is a good idea to enable the Watchdog features of the Dallas 1386 clock, so that if there are any kernel panics or troubles or whatever may occur that the watchdog would automatically restart linus in the event that the kernel was no-longer updating the timer. If I am just completely off on the whole general concept of a Watchdog please tell me, but I think that(if I'm right) it might be a good idea for everybody to have that feature available to them :-) The documentation that I was reading at Dallas' website implied that the only thing involved was to have the clock stuff to reset, or update, the reset time of the timer every xxx seconds to prevent it from restarting an out-of-control processor. Thanks, Robbie Stone P.S. In /src/web the permissions of the *.in files were changed somehow to root-only editing, it would be nice if you could enable the vip user group to have write-permissions as well, since there are a couple of things off in the documentation. P.P.S--To Alex, there doesn't appear anywhere in the web-pages a link into the manhattan/rpm2html hierarchy, I don't know If I missed the link, or if your just not done, but it isn't existent at the moment. And in the rpm2html generated files there is no page at the other end of the Help hyperlink on the top left-corner of the menu in the generated pages. P.P.P.S--to Mende, the root partition on Linus is _very_ close to being full, perhaps a clean up of the unnessesary programs/files is in order, otherwise the maintenance and addition of space on the /src partition is very nice. Good Night 8-)