Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 11:05:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 11:05:12 -0400 Received: from 213-187-164-2.dd.nextgentel.com ([213.187.164.2]:31367 "EHLO mail.pronto.tv") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id convert rfc822-to-8bit; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 11:05:11 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk Organization: ProntoTV AS To: Alan Cox Subject: Re: softdog doesn't work on 2.4.20-pre10? Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 17:12:10 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.1 Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List References: <200210091607.32769.roy@karlsbakk.net> <1034174409.1970.37.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <1034174409.1970.37.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: <200210091712.10987.roy@karlsbakk.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 828 Lines: 28 > > hi > > > > I have the softdog running on some of my machines, and I noticed it > > didn't work very well. I've got this little program feeding the dog > > (attached), so if it gets killed, the machine should reboot. > > Make sure you have no way out set ok. works with no way out, but still... When I killed 'feedthedog', I sent it a SIGKILL, so it couldn't have shut down the softdog properly. roy -- Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk, Datavaktmester ProntoTV AS - http://www.pronto.tv/ Tel: +47 9801 3356 Computers are like air conditioners. They stop working when you open Windows. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/