In article <199701090556.VAA15984@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>, Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> writes: > sysctl -w ddb.onpanic=0 What about something like "ddb.timeout"? The kernel debugger could wait "ddb.timeout" seconds for a first keypress and reboot the machine if nothing happens. -- Matthias Scheler http://colwyn.owl.de/~tron/