From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 28 18:38:13 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3361816A404 for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2007 18:38:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@t-b-o-h.net) Received: from vjofn.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com (vjofn.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com [204.107.90.128]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA47013C46C for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2007 18:38:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@t-b-o-h.net) Received: from himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com (dpc6747145123.direcpc.com [67.47.145.123]) (authenticated bits=0) by vjofn.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id l2SIc3Ig050787 for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2007 14:38:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: from himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com (localhost.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com [127.0.0.1]) by himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l2SIbd5R006216 for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2007 14:37:42 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from ml@t-b-o-h.net) Received: (from tbohml@localhost) by himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com (8.13.8/8.13.6/Submit) id l2SIbddH006215 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 28 Mar 2007 14:37:39 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from tbohml) From: "Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET" Message-Id: <200703281837.l2SIbddH006215@himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 14:37:39 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL8] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: How to get watchdogd from biting me!? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 18:38:13 -0000 Hi, I'm starting it with : watchdogd -s 15 -t 120 -e "logger I'm gonna hurl" And sometimes within a few minutes it reboots, and other times its hours... But at no time was the system inactive (I've been on it 3 of 4 reboots) and its never logged that for me either. What am I doing wrong?? Thanks, Tuc