Re: Watchdog?

Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo (acme@conectiva.com.br)
Sat, 13 Apr 1996 08:20:35 -0500 (CDT)

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Try the help in make menuconfig, there says that you have to compile your
kernel with watchdog (soft ou hard) and create /dev/watchdog, caracter
device, major 10, minor 130. In the Documentation directory of the 1.3
series there a watchdog.txt that have a example of a watchdog client.

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Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo acme@conectiva.com.br
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Conectiva Internet Solutions Curitiba - Parana' - Brazil

On Fri, 12 Apr 1996, Allen Curtis wrote:

ajcurtis>Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 16:18:04 -0700
ajcurtis>From: Allen Curtis <ajcurtis@westworld.com>
ajcurtis>To: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
ajcurtis>Subject: Watchdog?
ajcurtis>
ajcurtis>
ajcurtis>Some told me that there was a "watchdog" that could be built into the kernel
ajcurtis>so if the system gets hung, it will auto-reboot. However, I can not find
ajcurtis>any documentation on this feature in any of the obvious places. Could
ajcurtis>anyone tell me how to active this feature?
ajcurtis>
ajcurtis>thank you in advance....
ajcurtis>
ajcurtis>
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