MG> Since I know you are well versed in the BBS Biz you know that some BBS
 MG> software goes brain dead and refuses to answer the phone (for one reason
 MG> or another) but still act as though they are working but can not talk to
 MG> the modem any longer. That would make it necessary to either kill the BBS
 MG> process and restart it OR shutdown the system and reboot it. Since most
 MG> people can not figure out how to detect a BBS lockup, then shut it down
 MG> and restart it (Me included), it is easier to shut the system down....

Woah -- we have two distinct problems here.  The first one is to detect
when a BBS is hung -- I won't address that one.  The second is to
restart the BBS after a hang is detected.  It's nearly as easy to kill a
process and have it restart within a command file as it is to restart
the entire OS, and a heck of a lot more polite (I'd be more than a
little upset if the BBS hung in the background while I was working on
something else or a tape backup was underway and OS/2 suddenly rebooted,
for example).  Therefore, it seems that what you want to do is _NOT_
reboot the system, but kill the renegade process and let the command
file restart it.  Wanting to reboot the OS smacks strongly of old
single-tasking DOS-think.

Programs to kill processes and the source on how to do it already exist.
Tackle problem one above and resolve it to your satisfaction -- the rest
is easy.  If you have resolved problem one and need help with problem
two for some reason, netmail me.

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