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Here in computer land, we have a kernel watching over all of the land. She is like a shepherd, watching over the RAMs. You want to help her anyway you can in making sure all is well, as when things get out of hand she tends to panic, and when this happens to the poor kernel, she tends to freeze up.

Do remember however that you can set the kernel to be unattended so that she'll dump a core and bootstrap her shoes again in order to bring things into a workable state again. Then the little worker gnomes can examine the part that caused the panic and provide a patch so that these same wounds will not hurt her again.

Also if the kernel has been eating her cerials in the morning near boot time, and a co-processor kernel is watching the cerial line she can be stopped examined and continued in almost real-time in order to make the kernels life good. The function of the co-processor is not all that hard and you can do this with a script called 'expect'. All you need is the little COProcessor though.