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Questions tagged [watchdog]

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Supermicro BMC watchdog-caused reboots

I've recently acquired a SuperMicro X10SLL-F motherboard, which has a built-in BMC (Aspeed AST2400 chip). I want to use built-in watchdog controller when running linux on server (gentoo hardened). I enabled watchdog function in bios then switched…
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Is a hardware watchdog already active at my CentOS server?

I rent a dedicated server (with Intel Haswell CPU and custom hardware) at a lowcost hosting service and use it with CentOS 6.4 / 64 bit Linux (with stock kernel: 2.6.32-358.14.1.el6.x86_64). Every few weeks it hangs and the other customers seem to…
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How to set up linux watchdog daemon with Intel 6300esb

I've been searching for this on Google for sometime now and I have yet to find proper documentation on how to connect the kernel driver for my 6300esb watchdog timer to /dev/watchdog and ensure that watchdog daemon is keeping it alive. I am using…
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watchdog service is not working because /dev/watchdog does not exist

There is a ITE8783 watchdog chip placed within my machine (OS Ubuntu 14.04.1). The kernel module it87 supports is. This module was not automatically loaded on startup. So I added it87 to /etc/modules. Now the module loads at startup. it87: Found…
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watchdog: behavior of file and sync options?

Here's my situation: I'm having a very occasional problem where a (very) remote embedded PC/104 system running Debian seems to lose the ability to use any communications interface. I can't get to it via ethernet or serial ports (the console). After…
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FreeBSD 8.0 "Watchdog Timeout" drops ethernet connection

Recently my FreeBSD 8.0 (GENERIC) box was hit with a large amount of requests from an IP in Taiwan, trying to guess passwords and all of that stuff. Anyway, long story short, I noticed at a certain point I couldn't ssh into the box. After logging in…
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rcu_sched self-detected stall on CPU + watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#3 stuck for 22s

Being unable to ssh into a machine I connected it to a monitor and found the following: The machine is running Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS and is a first generation 8 core Ryzen 1700. I've restarted the machine since and it works fine but am not sure…
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watchdog watchdog0 watchdog did not stop

I have a computer that always has issues restarting/shutting down. I've installed many Linux distributions on it, including Debian 9 and VMware Photon OS, and I always have the same issue. When I restart, the machines does not actually restart, it…
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pgpool run and only log one line

I am using pgpool and when I run: sudo pgpool -f pgpool.conf -F pcp.conf -n It just log one line and keep waitting.... : 2014-10-09 13:27:42 LOG: pid 28626: wd_chk_setuid: ifup[/sbin/ifconfig] doesn't have setuid bit I installed the…
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Self watchdog script

Has anyone written a self-watchdog script and can share the way it was resolved? I have DD-WRT on one of the routers and can make only one startup script. The problem is doesn't get run. If I log on by telnet and start it manually it works great. So…
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How to check what/if hardware watchdogs are available in linux?

Linux supports several types of watchdog hardware. Is there a way to detect the available hardware watchdogs and load the appropriate kernel module (and "softdog" as fallback solution)? I guess, just trying all available kernel modules is not an…
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HP NC107i (BCM5723) on freebsd 9

We've purchased 3 hp proliant dl120 servers. They come with 2 integrated network adapters - HP NC107i PCIe Gigabit Server Adapter which is based on BCM5723. After Freebsd 9 installation I've discovered a few problems. After setting up bge0 network…
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linux + create simple watch dog process in shell script

I need to create watch dog process (will run in linux version 5.x) that look all time on /etc/cluster.cf file And if the process matches the string: machineA_is_active in the cluster.cf file Then this process will execute other script My question…
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watchdog daemon file change interval?

I'm trying to setup the watchdog daemon to run on my Fedora 12 system. I know exactly what I want it to do ... but I'm unsure as to exactly configure it. Mainly due to inexact documentation. What I want to do is have my system reboot if a specific…
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Windows NT Service "Watchdog" software?

The company i'm doing contract work is using Windows NT servers for a handful of legacy clients / website hosting. Brilliant. Anyway, One these Windows NT servers, occasionally the "World Wide Web Publishing Service" will crash, and there's really…
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