reboot on problem

[Mikel King]

On Sep 21, 2007, at 10:56 AM, Aleksander Rozman - Andy wrote:

> Hi !
>
> I am running FreeBSD as server. Thing is working great, there is  
> only one problem. Sometimes machine looses connection to  
> internet... Which is quite a problem, since this computer is on  
> remote location, which I only access once a week or less. I would  
> need application (or something), which would check if computer can  
> connect to gateway, in case that it can it would do nothing, but in  
> case it can't it would make soft reboot...
>
> Is there anything that I could achive this with? Any idea is  
> welcome... Please cc: message to my private address (reply all  
> should do this)
>
> Thanks in advance
> Andy


You could write a shell script to check the connection at a set  
interval and take corrective action should it encounter a problem.


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