Jack Wallen, Contributing Writer for ZDnet explains he has several Linux systems connected to his home lab; some of them are desktops, and some of them are servers. Ninety-nine percent of the time, those machines work flawlessly. When that 1% happens, any machine that goes south needs help.
One way of helping is via a small software package called Watchdog. This piece of software runs various checks to see if the hardware has "locked up." If it detects that it has happened, it will reboot the
