James K. Lowden wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, "Bastiaan Welmers" <haasje@welmers.net> wrote:
> 
>>I need to make a netbsd 1.6.1 box ready for an envirionment without
>>people arround. There's only an network connection with telnet, no
>>keyboard or whatever. So I need to prepare the box to ensure it will
>>always stand by. (except hardware errors of course). I'm about to make a
>>hardware watchdog to reset the box if the OS would hang for whatever
>>reason. 
>> 
>>One thing is that I already got problems with coming back after a
>>temporary power supply fail. Before mounting the partitions fsck found a
>>partition inconsistent and falls back into a single-user mode without
>>telnet or network connection. Something I absolutely don't want to
>>happen. Is there a way to ensure the system won't stop booting because
>>of this kind of problems?  
> 
> Sooner or later, you're going to need remote access to the console, if for
> no other reason than that single user mode is useful for all sorts of
> things.  

I can't see any reason for a netbsd network server to reboot as long as 
there are no remote exploitable vulnerabilities in the kernel itself or 
a hardware failure occurs.

So, for the system coming up after power supply failure, you could do 
two things: mount the partions without soft dependencies and set 
fsck_flags in /etc/rc.conf.

Martin