From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 1 12:48:34 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3B0E1065670 for ; Mon, 1 Dec 2008 12:48:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from won.derick@yahoo.com) Received: from n17.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com (n17.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.206.144]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A84478FC16 for ; Mon, 1 Dec 2008 12:48:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from won.derick@yahoo.com) Received: from [209.191.108.96] by n17.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 01 Dec 2008 12:48:32 -0000 Received: from [68.142.201.244] by t3.bullet.mud.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 01 Dec 2008 12:48:32 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by omp405.mail.mud.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 01 Dec 2008 12:48:32 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 75877.3963.bm@omp405.mail.mud.yahoo.com Received: (qmail 30561 invoked by uid 60001); 1 Dec 2008 12:48:31 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:References:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=Uu447YcK6llKNJDEyyp+OG7gTODGgYxTT/oqAjFB5Xle/mRbQJx2clvc02DMTEg//FsrVFB9f+9DHCdgaBzcQ7pYMx3MzgIs/aTrh9mvBvN5QkQACPq1mMrLXOYNfCoeJysC3pib8at5J6onrpv97GvU9bGMThsodP5SsgEwQb4=; X-YMail-OSG: 6Ms36DgVM1n55Te7WUmItmUIGzFpHiuQ0Kegns6n9.xUQADElJj3A58KSsH7JAqADfribFIT9QxHMKFzCShrsiSMhPQfqGBFg_5II33ILS2Bw.d28s0abrEQ0vAHTQTKEven4DZ.oV0dRqAtNoMovSXx1L9mI.4PrB8RI8K1OxiVBn.k7wfAVX6fyWI9 Received: from [58.71.34.137] by web45815.mail.sp1.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 01 Dec 2008 04:48:31 PST X-Mailer: YahooMailRC/1155.32 YahooMailWebService/0.7.260.1 References: <547602.79284.qm@web45809.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> <4933A29B.8060907@gmx.de> <20081201090421.GA99082@rink.nu> <611173.7111.qm@web45805.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> <4933AFD4.3070501@gmx.de> <86fxl8qf8i.fsf@ds4.des.no> Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 04:48:31 -0800 (PST) From: Won De Erick To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= , Christoph Mallon MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: <576032.29521.qm@web45815.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Rink Springer , freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Watchdog for Boser (HS-7001) X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:48:34 -0000 > ----- Original Message ----=0A=0A> From: Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav =0A> Christoph Mallon writes:=0A> > You're prob= ably better of writing this in C.=0Amaybe i get this as an option.=0A> =0A>= He's probably better off writing a watchdog(4) driver for the Boser (or=0A= > getting someone to write one for him - not easy to do without hardware=0A= > to test on, though)=0A> =0Athis is a great info. i am used to settings li= ke the following when using ipmi-compliant platform.=0A#bmc-watchdog -s -a = 1 -i 100 (#set timeout action to hard reset after a timeout of 100 secon= ds)=0Athen daemonize to constantly reset the timer, and prevent the box fro= m restarting.=0A=0AI installed watchdog(/usr/ports/sysutils/watchdog) from = ports, then noticed the following from the manual.=0A watchdog [-d] [-t= timeout]=0A=0A# watchdog -d -t 50=0ATimeout is 2^36 nanoseconds=0Awatchdog= : patting the dog: Operation not supported=0A=0Abut I don't know how it is = linked with watchdogd(8).=0A=0ALittle more explanation is appreciated, and/= or an example.=0A=0A> DES=0A> -- =0A> Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no=0A= =0A=0A