On Wednesday 09 October 2002 17:33, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 16:12, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
> > > > hi
> > > >
> > > > I have the softdog running on some of my machines, and I noticed it
> > > > didn't work very well. I've got this little program feeding the dog
> > > > (attached), so if it gets killed, the machine should reboot.
> > >
> > > Make sure you have no way out set
> >
> > ok. works with no way out, but still...
> >
> > When I killed 'feedthedog', I sent it a SIGKILL, so it couldn't have shut
> > down the softdog properly.
>
> Of course it did , it exited so the fil ehandles closed
not according to Documentation/watchdog-api.txt
but
it doesn't tell if the softdog supports the send-'V'-before-close-file command
to shut it down
roy
-- Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk, Datavaktmester ProntoTV AS - http://www.pronto.tv/ Tel: +47 9801 3356Computers are like air conditioners. They stop working when you open Windows.
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