Watchdog for Boser (HS-7001)

[Won De Erick]

> ----- Original Message ----

> From: Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des at des.no>
> Christoph Mallon <christoph.mallon at gmx.de> writes:
> > You're probably better of writing this in C.
maybe i get this as an option.
> 
> He's probably better off writing a watchdog(4) driver for the Boser (or
> getting someone to write one for him - not easy to do without hardware
> to test on, though)
> 
this is a great info. i am used to settings like the following when using ipmi-compliant platform.
#bmc-watchdog -s -a 1 -i 100    (#set timeout action to hard reset after a timeout of 100 seconds)
then daemonize to constantly reset the timer, and prevent the box from restarting.

I installed watchdog(/usr/ports/sysutils/watchdog) from ports, then noticed the following from the manual.
     watchdog [-d] [-t timeout]

# watchdog -d -t 50
Timeout is 2^36 nanoseconds
watchdog: patting the dog: Operation not supported

but I don't know how it is linked with watchdogd(8).

Little more explanation is appreciated, and/or an example.

> DES
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> Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des at des.no