From: Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org>
To: Michael Buesch <freesoftwaredeveloper@web.de>
Cc: Mitch Adair <mitch@theneteffect.com>,
rmiller@duskglow.com (Russell Miller),
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: subsystem crashes reboot system?
Date: 02 Apr 2003 11:07:40 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k7ecg1kz.fsf@ceramic.fifi.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200304022044.27530.freesoftwaredeveloper@web.de>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-02 18:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-02 17:49 subsystem crashes reboot system? Russell Miller
2003-04-02 18:06 ` Mitch Adair
2003-04-02 18:44 ` Michael Buesch
2003-04-02 18:46 ` Mitch Adair
2003-04-02 19:07 ` Philippe Troin [this message]
2003-04-02 19:32 ` Michael Buesch
2003-04-02 21:51 ` Andrew Morton
2003-04-02 21:51 ` Russell Miller
2003-04-02 22:13 ` Andrew Morton
2003-04-02 22:11 ` Russell Miller
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