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Previously, we have a nap interval of 1 second while we have a timeout of 128 seconds by default, which could be an overkill, and for some hardware the patting action may be expensive. Note that the choice of nap interval is still arbitrary. We preferred a safe value where even when the system is very heavily loaded, the watchdog should not shoot the system down if it's not really hung. According to the manual page of Linux's watchdog daemon, the nap interval time of theirs is 10 seconds, which seems to be a reasonable value -- according to Intel documentation AP-725 (Document Number: 292273-001), ICH5's maximum timeout is about 37.5 seconds, which the ichwd(4) driver would set when we requested 128 seconds (although it should probably feed back this as an error and do not set the timeout). Since that's the shortest maximum value, 10 seconds seems to be a right choice for us too. Discussed with: alfred MFC after: 1 month
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.\" Copyright (c) 2013 iXsystems.com,
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.\" author: Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org>
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.\" Copyright (c) 2004 Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.org>
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.\" Copyright (c) 2003 Sean M. Kelly <smkelly@FreeBSD.org>
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.\" All rights reserved.
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.\"
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.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
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.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
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.\" are met:
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.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.\"
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.Dd November 16, 2014
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.Dt WATCHDOGD 8
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm watchdogd
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.Nd watchdog daemon
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Nm
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.Op Fl dnSw
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.Op Fl -debug
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.Op Fl -softtimeout
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.Op Fl -softtimeout-action Ar action
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.Op Fl -pretimeout Ar timeout
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.Op Fl -pretimeout-action Ar action
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.Op Fl e Ar cmd
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.Op Fl I Ar file
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.Op Fl s Ar sleep
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.Op Fl t Ar timeout
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.Op Fl T Ar script_timeout
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Nm
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utility interfaces with the kernel's watchdog facility to ensure
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that the system is in a working state.
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If
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.Nm
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is unable to interface with the kernel over a specific timeout,
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the kernel will take actions to assist in debugging or restarting the computer.
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.Pp
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If
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.Fl e Ar cmd
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is specified,
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.Nm
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will attempt to execute this command with
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.Xr system 3 ,
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and only if the command returns with a zero exit code will the
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watchdog be reset.
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If
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.Fl e Ar cmd
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is not specified, the daemon will perform a trivial file system
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check instead.
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.Pp
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The
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.Fl n
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argument 'dry-run' will cause watchdog not to arm the system watchdog and
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instead only run the watchdog function and report on failures.
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This is useful for developing new watchdogd scripts as the system will not
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reboot if there are problems with the script.
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.Pp
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The
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.Fl s Ar sleep
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argument can be used to control the sleep period between each execution
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of the check and defaults to 10 seconds.
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.Pp
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The
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.Fl t Ar timeout
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specifies the desired timeout period in seconds.
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The default timeout is 128 seconds.
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.Pp
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One possible circumstance which will cause a watchdog timeout is an interrupt
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storm.
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If this occurs,
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.Nm
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will no longer execute and thus the kernel's watchdog routines will take
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action after a configurable timeout.
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.Pp
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The
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.Fl T Ar script_timeout
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specifies the threshold (in seconds) at which the watchdogd will complain
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that its script has run for too long.
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If unset
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.Ar script_timeout
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defaults to the value specified by the
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.Fl s Ar sleep
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option.
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.Pp
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Upon receiving the
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.Dv SIGTERM
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or
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.Dv SIGINT
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signals,
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.Nm
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will first instruct the kernel to no longer perform watchdog checks and then
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will terminate.
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.Pp
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The
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.Nm
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utility recognizes the following runtime options:
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.Bl -tag -width 30m
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.It Fl I Ar file
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Write the process ID of the
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.Nm
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utility in the specified file.
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.It Fl d Fl -debug
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Do not fork.
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When this option is specified,
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.Nm
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will not fork into the background at startup.
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.It Fl S
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Do not send a message to the system logger when the watchdog command takes
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longer than expected to execute.
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The default behaviour is to log a warning via the system logger with the
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LOG_DAEMON facility, and to output a warning to standard error.
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.It Fl w
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Complain when the watchdog script takes too long.
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This flag will cause watchdogd to complain when the amount of time to
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execute the watchdog script exceeds the threshold of 'sleep' option.
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.It Fl -pretimeout Ar timeout
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Set a "pretimeout" watchdog.
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At "timeout" seconds before the watchdog will fire attempt an action.
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The action is set by the --pretimeout-action flag.
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The default is just to log a message (WD_SOFT_LOG) via
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.Xr log 9 .
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.It Fl -pretimeout-action Ar action
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Set the timeout action for the pretimeout.
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See the section
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.Sx Timeout Actions .
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.It Fl -softtimeout
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Instead of arming the various hardware watchdogs, only use a basic software
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watchdog.
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The default action is just to
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.Xr log 9
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a message (WD_SOFT_LOG).
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.It Fl -softtimeout-action Ar action
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Set the timeout action for the softtimeout.
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See the section
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.Sx Timeout Actions .
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.El
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.Sh Timeout Actions
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The following timeout actions are available via the
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.Fl -pretimeout-action
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and
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.Fl -softtimeout-action
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flags:
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.Bl -tag -width ".Ar printf "
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.It Ar panic
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Call
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.Xr panic 9
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when the timeout is reached.
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.It Ar ddb
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Enter the kernel debugger via
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.Xr kdb_enter 9
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when the timeout is reached.
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.It Ar log
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Log a message using
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.Xr log 9
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when the timeout is reached.
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.It Ar printf
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call the kernel
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.Xr printf 9
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to display a message to the console and
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.Xr dmesg 8
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buffer.
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.El
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.Pp
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Actions can be combined in a comma separated list as so:
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.Ar log,printf
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which would both
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.Xr printf 9
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and
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.Xr log 9
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which will send messages both to
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.Xr dmesg 8
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and the kernel
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.Xr log 4
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device for
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.Xr syslog 8 .
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.Sh FILES
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.Bl -tag -width ".Pa /var/run/watchdogd.pid" -compact
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.It Pa /var/run/watchdogd.pid
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.El
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.Sh EXAMPLES
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.Ss Debugging watchdogd and/or your watchdog script.
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This is a useful recipe for debugging
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.Nm
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and your watchdog script.
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.Pp
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(Note that ^C works oddly because
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.Nm
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calls
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.Xr system 3
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so the
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first ^C will terminate the "sleep" command.)
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.Pp
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Explanation of options used:
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.Bl -enum -offset indent -compact
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.It
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Set Debug on (--debug)
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.It
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Set the watchdog to trip at 30 seconds. (-t 30)
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.It
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Use of a softtimeout:
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.Bl -enum -offset indent -compact -nested
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.It
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Use a softtimeout (do not arm the hardware watchdog).
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(--softtimeout)
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.It
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Set the softtimeout action to do both kernel
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.Xr printf 9
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and
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.Xr log 9
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when it trips.
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(--softtimeout-action log,printf)
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.El
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.It
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Use of a pre-timeout:
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.Bl -enum -offset indent -compact -nested
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.It
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Set a pre-timeout of 15 seconds (this will later trigger a panic/dump).
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(--pretimeout 15)
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.It
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Set the action to also kernel
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.Xr printf 9
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and
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.Xr log 9
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when it trips.
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(--pretimeout-action log,printf)
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.El
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.It
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Use of a script:
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.Bl -enum -offset indent -compact -nested
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.It
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Run "sleep 60" as a shell command that acts as the watchdog (-e 'sleep 60')
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.It
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Warn us when the script takes longer than 1 second to run (-w)
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.El
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.El
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.Bd -literal
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watchdogd --debug -t 30 \\
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--softtimeout --softtimeout-action log,printf \\
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--pretimeout 15 --pretimeout-action log,printf \\
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-e 'sleep 60' -w
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.Ed
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.Ss Production use of example
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.Bl -enum -offset indent -compact
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.It
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Set hard timeout to 120 seconds (-t 120)
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.It
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Set a panic to happen at 60 seconds (to trigger a
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.Xr crash 8
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for dump analysis):
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.Bl -enum -offset indent -compact -nested
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.It
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Use of pre-timeout (--pretimeout 60)
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.It
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Specify pre-timeout action (--pretimeout-action log,printf,panic )
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.El
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.It
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Use of a script:
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.Bl -enum -offset indent -compact -nested
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.It
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Run your script (-e '/path/to/your/script 60')
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.It
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Log if your script takes a longer than 15 seconds to run time. (-w -T 15)
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.El
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.El
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.Bd -literal
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watchdogd -t 120 \\
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--pretimeout 60 --pretimeout-action log,printf,panic \\
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-e '/path/to/your/script 60' -w -T 15
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.Ed
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr watchdog 4 ,
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.Xr watchdog 8 ,
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.Xr watchdog 9
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.Sh HISTORY
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The
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.Nm
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utility appeared in
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.Fx 5.1 .
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.Sh AUTHORS
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.An -nosplit
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The
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.Nm
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utility and manual page were written by
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.An Sean Kelly Aq Mt smkelly@FreeBSD.org
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and
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.An Poul-Henning Kamp Aq Mt phk@FreeBSD.org .
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.Pp
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Some contributions made by
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.An Jeff Roberson Aq Mt jeff@FreeBSD.org .
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.Pp
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The pretimeout and softtimeout action system was added by
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.An Alfred Perlstein Aq Mt alfred@freebsd.org .
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