maccoach and linux ppc

maccoach and linux ppc

[blokos]

Support wrote:

> Maccoach is a great product that permit your server to reboot
> automatically when it crashes... but it works only with Mac os. So i
> ve sent an email to Maccoach support and that is the answer

> >hello,

> >our server is a Power mac with linux PPC,
> >is your product could work with this system ??
> >
> >it will be very great !!
>
> We don't have a linux PPC version available.
>
> However we'll be happy to supply all technical information needed to
> anyone willing make a linux PPC driver.
>
> Regards,
>
> Henk Kampman
> Neuron Data Systems
> http://www.neuronsys.com/

 If some developer would work on it, it will be very cool !!!


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Re: maccoach and linux ppc

[Justin McKillican]

heh.. why would linux crash? :)


justin



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>From: blokos <blokos@worldnet.fr>
>To: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
>Subject: maccoach and linux ppc
>Date: Fri, May 14, 1999, 9:52 PM
>

>
> Support wrote:
>
>> Maccoach is a great product that permit your server to reboot
>> automatically when it crashes... but it works only with Mac os. So i
>> ve sent an email to Maccoach support and that is the answer
>
>> >hello,
>
>> >our server is a Power mac with linux PPC,
>> >is your product could work with this system ??
>> >
>> >it will be very great !!
>>
>> We don't have a linux PPC version available.
>>
>> However we'll be happy to supply all technical information needed to
>> anyone willing make a linux PPC driver.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Henk Kampman
>> Neuron Data Systems
>> http://www.neuronsys.com/
>
>  If some developer would work on it, it will be very cool !!!

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Re: maccoach and linux ppc

[Tom Rini]

(Didn't see the orig email, sorry).

On Sat, 15 May 1999, blokos wrote:

> Support wrote:
> 
> > Maccoach is a great product that permit your server to reboot
> > automatically when it crashes... but it works only with Mac os. So i
> > ve sent an email to Maccoach support and that is the answer

This sounds exactly like the software watchdog config option:
CONFIG_SOFT_WATCHDOG:

  A software monitoring watchdog. This will fail to reboot your system
  from some situations that the hardware watchdog will recover
  from. Equally it's a lot cheaper to install. 

This should work on ppcs.  If you need a HW solution, the watchdog PCI
cards should work (the ones w/ drivers that is), but you never know.

---
Tom Rini (TR1265)
http://dobbstown.yeti.edu/


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Re: maccoach and linux ppc

[laures]

On 15 Mai, Justin McKillican wrote:
> 
> heh.. why would linux crash? :)
> 
> 
> justin
>
the only reason it would is somebody playing on the machine with some
too experimental software, which is not usually the case on a critical
server so... I also think this would be unuseful.

What a shame, they seemed to have a so good policy towards linux, for a
hardware company !!


-- 
Guillaume Laurès - student @ ESIEA (www.esiea.fr)


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