Yes, RELOAD... A new concept in BBS's that don't glitch.....
The program is set to RELOAD itself twice a day and if you turn level 2 on, every fourth time it completely RESTARTS the computer. I was using the FINDER (not MULTIFINDER) and had the MUBBS appl set to start up at boot. RELOADING a program is important when you understand COSMIC RAYS, like GAMMA, BETA and stuff like that. Those rays penetrate through all kinds of electronics and CAN'T be stopped. Ask anyone who MANUFACTURES RAM CHIPS! Reloading the program prevents this from becoming a real problem. If someone is online, the system waits till all are logged out and then reloads.
WATCHDOG... I had a hardware WATCH DOG hooked to the clock chip on the mother board, when you read the time, the watchdog reset itself. If you didn't read the clock chip once every minute, it would reset the computer. This kept the system up ALL THE TIME. Remember, I was using it a lot from REMOTE. I didn't feel like going for a hour drive every time I had a POWER GLITCH (UPS's screw up too). MUBBS is set up to do this, and a watchdog board will be made available with "clip" leads or something so that it can be easily added. Watch the support BBS for more details.
You're talking about a REAL BBS, that ANSWERS the phone all the time. You're talking about leaving it in a remote location, several hours away from you and not having to drive every other day to un stick it. You're talking about the Voyager Spacecraft !!! (or MUBBS, whichever you can afford).
You can FORCE a reset as a test from the "sysop" pull down menu. There is also a "function" that calls the "function" module (when it's available) that might do something.
There are some things in the ONLINE sysop menu that allow you to force a reload, or reset from remote and do some other stuff. You should read the "sysop" module's instructions. Basically the user list maint runs a check of all records and checks to see if some extra characters have been added to the file (through a glitch). To get to the heavy sysop stuff, use "sysop" as the password. I put this in as protection from someone that may have my password and then gets to this and has to type another password (it wasn't the same password as the log on password on my system). It will hang up immediately if you don't type it correctly. The password is configurable.
