yes, there is a setting for automatic restart. i'll have to check my 
manual (which is not anywhere near me) to know for sure, but you could just
try changing it to values other than 0 and 1, like 2 and 3, and see what 
happens.. or someone on the list who actually knows it might point it 
out.. (this is of course the value for the HALT variable)

isildur

On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Blaz Antonic wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> > > I was unpleasantly surprised yesterday and today when my VAX had crashed
> > > three times. It always happens when i'm compiling something (this
> > > "something" being fvwm in my case, but IIRC it crashed once during
> > > kernel compile too).
> > >
> >         Do you get any panic messages when it crashes? Do you have DDB
> >         compiled into the kernel?
> 
> As i said earlier - since serial console attached to it was unavaliable
> i used telnet sessions to log on. There was no mention of kernel panic
> in telnet window but tehn again i'm not sure if they'd pop up there at
> all. 
> 
> I'm trying out John Klos's suggestion now (it will take some time to get
> kernel compiled).
> 
> For what it's worth: after one crash this morning (that finally made me
> post to the mailing list) i restarted the box, opened 1 session via
> virtual terminal and one via serial console; fvwm compiled without any
> problems and there were no further crashes. I have this ugly feeling
> that had i opened one more virtual terminal i'd get it to hang again ...
> but i just wasn't in the mood for restart :) It's like Murphy is
> involved - when i use serial console it works allright just to tease me;
> when i use 2 virtual terminals it crashes. Now i'll leave it chum on
> modified kernel, it will take a while but i'll let you know if it
> crashes again (and again i'm away from serial console).
> 
> BTW: with all the gimmicks VAXen have DEC engineers couldn't leave one
> HALT level for automatic reboot ? It boots of DKA0 after powerup but
> there is no way to have it boot after kernel crash, is it ?
> 
> Blaz Antonic
> 
>