Re: subsystem crashes reboot system?

From: Philippe Troin (phil@fifi.org)
Date: Wed Apr 02 2003 - 14:07:40 EST


Michael Buesch <freesoftwaredeveloper@web.de> writes:

> On Wednesday 02 April 2003 20:06, Mitch Adair wrote:
>
> > Isn't this what watchdog is for? I think even the software
> > watchdog would catch this, then you can panic and reboot.
>
> hm, I don't think, that watchdog will catch this, because the
> userspace-watchdog daemon will still be running properly in a crash
> case (or did I understand something wrong?)

Unless you configure it to stat your filesystems, like in:

  watchdog-device = /dev/misc/watchdog
  realtime = yes
  priority = 99
  admin =
  file = /
  file = /var
  file = /usr
  ...

Phil.
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