Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 13:50:10 +0200 From: Patrick =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Lamaizi=E8re?= <patfbsd@davenulle.org> To: sclark46@earthlink.net Cc: FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 6.3-p5 watchdog timer not being disabled Message-ID: <20081011135010.095708bc@baby-jane-lamaiziere-net.local> In-Reply-To: <48EF53DF.4070307@earthlink.net> References: <48ED04DA.8050902@earthlink.net> <20081010144035.01fc764a@baby-jane-lamaiziere-net.local> <48EF53DF.4070307@earthlink.net>
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Le Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:08:47 -0400, Stephen Clark <sclark46@earthlink.net> a écrit : > >> On both of the above platforms this does not work and the platforms > >> reboot when watchdogd is killed with a kill pid, > >> after the timeout value (-t) that had been specified to watchdogd > >> when starting it has elapsed. > >> t > >> Am I misunderstanding how this is suppose to work? > > > > No, i have tested on my net5501 on freebsd-current. It works. > > > > Can you try with watchdog -d -t <time> followed by a watchdog -t 0 > > to disable the watchdog ? > > > > There is a problem on the net5501 when you disable and then > > re-enable the watchdog after the timer has elapsed: the box reboots > > immediatly. But you can disable the timer. > > > > Regards. > > > You are correct if I kill watchdogd then run watchdog -t 0 the box > does not reboot. The problem is the with the watchdogd program if it > is killed with a sigtint or sigterm it is suppose to disable the > watchdog timer and exit. It is not appear to be disabling the timer, > because my box is rebooting. It works fine for me on Current, I don't know why this don't work on RELENG_6. The code of watchdogd looks to be the same. Sorry, i can't help more.
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