> > Does it actually perform some kind of checks? What I got from the
>
> Watchdog itself? Yes, which ones depends on your configuration.
> wd_keepalive only triggers the hardware watchdog.
No, I meant wd_keepalive and not watchdog.
> > documentation is that it only writes to /dev/watchdog period
> Does it actually perform some kind of checks? What I got from the
Watchdog itself? Yes, which ones depends on your configuration. wd_keepalive
only triggers the hardware watchdog.
> documentation is that it only writes to /dev/watchdog periodically regardless
> what happens. Thus "basic watch
Thanks for the reply.
> Why? Sorry, I'm not sure I actually understand what you're saying.
wd_keepalive
> is started to still have basic watchdog functionality without the additional
> checks performed by the watchdog daemon.
Does it actually perform some kind of checks? What I got from the
doc
> 1) Is it really the desired behavior that wd_keepalive is started in
> /etc/init.d/watchdog when the watchdog daemon is stopped? If the system shall
Yes.
> be kept from rebooting due to terminating the watchdog process, does it not
> suffice to close /dev/watchdog as it is documented in the
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