reboot on kernel panic
February 11th, 2008 Posted in LinuxIt’s quite inconvenient to have to drive all the way back to a datacenter to reboot a server which has had a kernel panic. In some places you can remotely reboot these systems via ip console or other means. For others, you may simply want to drop a line in /etc/sysctl.conf.
# Reboot after 1 minute of Panic
kernel.panic = 60
This little bit of code will allow your system to reboot after displaying the panic for 1 minute. Salt to taste for time, but remember that you can put your server into a loop with this if it panics on every boot.