Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!ucdavis!csusac!scott From: scott@csusac.csus.edu (L. Scott Emmons) Newsgroups: alt.hackers Subject: Re: why don't more people, er, *manufacturers*, do this?! Message-ID: <1990Feb13.042147.3047@csusac.csus.edu> Date: 13 Feb 90 04:21:47 GMT References: <1990Feb12.171208.29372@world.std.com> Reply-To: scott@csusac.UUCP (L. Scott Emmons) Organization: California State University, Sacramento Lines: 20 Approved: root@dinkledorf In article <1990Feb12.171208.29372@world.std.com> spike@world.std.com (Joe Ilacqua) writes: > Many PC/XT/AT clone motherboards do have a hookup for a reset >switch. It is usualy a pair of pins (like for a jumper) some where on >the front left of the motherboard. Or...you can also do what I did on my old and ancient Zenith...pull the reset pin of the processor high via a pullup resistor through a switch....nasty, evil, and warrantee expiring...but it works! Hackwise...Well, I just wrote a cute routine that runs a script every so often (user specified time, of course). Great for preserving things in /tmp (you know...the usual reasons) when sys-mgrs rm things there regularly...And of course my routine disconnects itself from the tty, is niced, and handles other things correctly.....with a new version coming when I get done with other projects...want a copy? Written for BSD4.2. -- L. Scott Emmons --------------- ...[!ucbvax]!ucdavis!csusac!scott ucdavis!csusac!scott@ucbvax.berkeley.edu