From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 2 Apr 2003 14:27:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 2 Apr 2003 14:27:09 -0500 Received: from smtp03.web.de ([217.72.192.158]:49432 "EHLO smtp.web.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 2 Apr 2003 14:27:08 -0500 From: Michael Buesch To: Philippe Troin Subject: Re: subsystem crashes reboot system? Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 21:32:41 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <200304021806.h32I6M709795@mako.theneteffect.com> <200304022044.27530.freesoftwaredeveloper@web.de> <87k7ecg1kz.fsf@ceramic.fifi.org> In-Reply-To: <87k7ecg1kz.fsf@ceramic.fifi.org> Cc: Mitch Adair , rmiller@duskglow.com (Russell Miller), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200304022132.41821.freesoftwaredeveloper@web.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. -- ------------- My homepage: http://www.8ung.at/tuxsoft fighting for peace is like fu**ing for virginity