Re: subsystem crashes reboot system?

Philippe Troin
2003-04-02T18:57:05Z

Michael Buesch <freesoftwaredeveloper@web.de> writes:

> On Wednesday 02 April 2003 20:06, Mitch Adair wrote:
>
> > Isn't this what watchdog is for? I think even the software
> > watchdog would catch this, then you can panic and reboot.
>
> 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
...

Phil.