From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 7 06:20:23 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D41F16A4CE for ; Tue, 7 Dec 2004 06:20:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.gmx.net (pop.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 30D9543D49 for ; Tue, 7 Dec 2004 06:20:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from michaelnottebrock@gmx.net) Received: (qmail 26742 invoked by uid 65534); 7 Dec 2004 06:20:11 -0000 Received: from p5087DF53.dip.t-dialin.net (EHLO lofi.dyndns.org) (80.135.223.83) by mail.gmx.net (mp014) with SMTP; 07 Dec 2004 07:20:11 +0100 X-Authenticated: #443188 Received: from kiste.my.domain (kiste.my.domain [192.168.8.4]) (authenticated bits=0) by lofi.dyndns.org (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id iB76K4d1089300 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 7 Dec 2004 07:20:07 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from michaelnottebrock@gmx.net) From: Michael Nottebrock To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 07:18:28 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart8106911.aYQrEq6lGm"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200412070718.36750.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new Subject: Watchdog questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 06:20:23 -0000 --nextPart8106911.aYQrEq6lGm Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline I recently configured SW_WATCHDOG in my kernel and put watchdogd_enable=3D"= YES"=20 in my rc.conf, hoping it would reboot the machine automatically if it hangs= =2E=20 However, it seems that the watchdog just triggers a panic without resetting= =20 the machine - how can I configure things to reboot? Also I noticed that the default timeout (what is the default timeout anyway= -=20 the watchdogd manpage doesn't tell) is a little short: I got a watchdogd=20 triggered panic once during a normal shutdown, after "rebooting" was printe= d=20 but before the reboot could happen. =2D-=20 ,_, | Michael Nottebrock | lofi@freebsd.org (/^ ^\) | FreeBSD - The Power to Serve | http://www.freebsd.org \u/ | K Desktop Environment on FreeBSD | http://freebsd.kde.org --nextPart8106911.aYQrEq6lGm Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBBtUs8Xhc68WspdLARAhouAJwIWIS2QC8W1+gVFliVGdGvrozQKQCbB+GY WE0rNufRt+pUgrKKB8vWqv4= =TXFw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart8106911.aYQrEq6lGm--