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Make server reboot by itself instead of dropping to kernel debugger

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on OpenBSD if you put ddb.panic=0 into /etc/sysctl.conf, the server won't drop into debugger on kernel panic. Is there a similar setting for CentOS 6.4 / 64 bit?

posted Aug 23, 2013 by Dewang Chaudhary

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I've ended up doing this (hope it's valid for CentOS 6.4):

# echo 10 > /proc/sys/kernel/panic
# echo "kernel.panic=10" >> /etc/sysctl.conf
commented Aug 23, 2013 by anonymous

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If your servers have a watchdog timer (most with IPMI/iLO/iDRAC/etc do), you can enable it. The OS will then have to kick the timer periodically to restart it's counter. If the OS panic's, it won't be able to reset
the timer. Once the timer expires, it reboots.

answer Aug 23, 2013 by Mandeep Sehgal
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