Linux Watchdog Daemon

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Overview of the Watchdog Daemon (read this first)
General Tests
Normal Installation
Building from Source
Command Line Options
Configuring The Daemon
Writing Test/Repair Scripts
Testing Before Deployment

Useful Links

Official source code (currently V5.15, and also older versions) can be pulled from here:

https://sourceforge.net/p/watchdog/code/ci/master/tree/

General bug tracking and issues can be looked at here:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/watchdog/


The 'man' pages (may not be current):

https://linux.die.net/man/8/watchdog

https://linux.die.net/man/5/watchdog.conf


Other useful sources of information are:

https://github.com/miniwark/miniwark-howtos/wiki/Hardware-Watchdog-Timer-setup-on-Ubuntu-12.04

https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-api.txt

https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt

An excellent article covering watchdog hardware and the generally bad design of some hardware and software:

http://www.ganssle.com/watchdogs.htm

Last Updated on 26-Aug-2019 by Paul Crawford
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