Re: softdog doesn't work on 2.4.20-pre10?

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Wed Oct 09 2002 - 10:33:00 EST


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

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