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CONFIG_WATCHDOG: Watchdog Timer Support

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The Linux kernel configuration item CONFIG_WATCHDOG has multiple definitions:

Watchdog Timer Support found in drivers/watchdog/Kconfig

The configuration item CONFIG_WATCHDOG:

Help text

If you say Y here (and to one of the following options) and create a character special file /dev/watchdog with major number 10 and minor number 130 using mknod ("man mknod"), you will get a watchdog, i.e.: subsequently opening the file and then failing to write to it for longer than 1 minute will result in rebooting the machine. This could be useful for a networked machine that needs to come back on-line as fast as possible after a lock-up. There's both a watchdog implementation entirely in software (which can sometimes fail to reboot the machine) and a driver for hardware watchdog boards, which are more robust and can also keep track of the temperature inside your computer. For details, read Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-api.rst in the kernel source.

The watchdog is usually used together with the watchdog daemon which is available from https://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/daemons/watchdog/. This daemon can also monitor NFS connections and can reboot the machine when the process table is full.

If unsure, say N.

Watchdog Timer Support found in arch/um/Kconfig.char

The configuration item CONFIG_WATCHDOG:

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(none)

Watchdog Timer Support found in drivers/char/watchdog/Kconfig

The configuration item CONFIG_WATCHDOG:

Help text

If you say Y here (and to one of the following options) and create a character special file /dev/watchdog with major number 10 and minor number 130 using mknod ("man mknod"), you will get a watchdog, i.e.: subsequently opening the file and then failing to write to it for longer than 1 minute will result in rebooting the machine. This could be useful for a networked machine that needs to come back on-line as fast as possible after a lock-up. There's both a watchdog implementation entirely in software (which can sometimes fail to reboot the machine) and a driver for hardware watchdog boards, which are more robust and can also keep track of the temperature inside your computer. For details, read Documentation/watchdog/watchdog.txt in the kernel source.

The watchdog is usually used together with the watchdog daemon which is available from <ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/daemons/watchdog/>. This daemon can also monitor NFS connections and can reboot the machine when the process table is full.

If unsure, say N.

Watchdog Timer Support found in arch/um/Kconfig_char

The configuration item CONFIG_WATCHDOG:

Help text

(none)

Watchdog Timer Support found in arch/sh/Kconfig

The configuration item CONFIG_WATCHDOG:

Help text

If you say Y here (and to one of the following options) and create a character special file /dev/watchdog with major number 10 and minor number 130 using mknod ("man mknod"), you will get a watchdog, i.e.: subsequently opening the file and then failing to write to it for longer than 1 minute will result in rebooting the machine. This could be useful for a networked machine that needs to come back online as fast as possible after a lock-up. There's both a watchdog implementation entirely in software (which can sometimes fail to reboot the machine) and a driver for hardware watchdog boards, which are more robust and can also keep track of the temperature inside your computer. For details, read Documentation/watchdog/watchdog.txt in the kernel source.

The watchdog is usually used together with the watchdog daemon which is available from <ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/daemons/watchdog/>. This daemon can also monitor NFS connections and can reboot the machine when the process table is full.

If unsure, say N.

Watchdog Timer Support found in arch/m68k/Kconfig

The configuration item CONFIG_WATCHDOG:

Help text

If you say Y here (and to one of the following options) and create a character special file /dev/watchdog with major number 10 and minor number 130 using mknod ("man mknod"), you will get a watchdog, i.e.: subsequently opening the file and then failing to write to it for longer than 1 minute will result in rebooting the machine. This could be useful for a networked machine that needs to come back online as fast as possible after a lock-up. There's both a watchdog implementation entirely in software (which can sometimes fail to reboot the machine) and a driver for hardware watchdog boards, which are more robust and can also keep track of the temperature inside your computer. For details, read Documentation/watchdog/watchdog.txt in the kernel source.

The watchdog is usually used together with the watchdog daemon which is available from <ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/daemons/watchdog/>. This daemon can also monitor NFS connections and can reboot the machine when the process table is full.

If unsure, say N.

Watchdog Timer Support found in drivers/char/Kconfig

The configuration item CONFIG_WATCHDOG:

Help text

If you say Y here (and to one of the following options) and create a character special file /dev/watchdog with major number 10 and minor number 130 using mknod ("man mknod"), you will get a watchdog, i.e.: subsequently opening the file and then failing to write to it for longer than 1 minute will result in rebooting the machine. This could be useful for a networked machine that needs to come back online as fast as possible after a lock-up. There's both a watchdog implementation entirely in software (which can sometimes fail to reboot the machine) and a driver for hardware watchdog boards, which are more robust and can also keep track of the temperature inside your computer. For details, read Documentation/watchdog.txt in the kernel source.

The watchdog is usually used together with the watchdog daemon which is available from <ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/daemons/watchdog/>. This daemon can also monitor NFS connections and can reboot the machine when the process table is full.

If unsure, say N.

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