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To: Michael Buesch <freesoftwaredeveloper@web.de>
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From: Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org>
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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.