Re: subsystem crashes reboot system?

Michael Buesch (freesoftwaredeveloper@web.de)
Wed, 2 Apr 2003 21:32:41 +0200


On Wednesday 02 April 2003 21:07, you wrote:

> > 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
> ...

Yes that's true. I didn't remember this option.
With this, watchdog would be a solution of russel's problem,
without writing some kernel-error-handling for it.

Regards Michael Buesch.

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