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Subject: Re: softdog doesn't work on 2.4.20-pre10?
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <roy@karlsbakk.net>
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On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 16:12, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
> > > 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.

Of course it did , it exited so the fil ehandles closed


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