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Manual Pages  — WATCHDOG

NAME

watchdog – watchdog control program

CONTENTS

SYNOPSIS


watchdog [-d] [-t timeout]

DESCRIPTION

The watchdog utility can be used to control the kernel's watchdog facility.

The -d option enables debugging.

The -t timeout option specifies the desired timeout period in seconds, a value of zero will disable the watchdog. The default timeout is 128 seconds.

SEE ALSO

watchdog(4), watchdogd(8), watchdog(9)

HISTORY

The watchdog utility appeared in FreeBSD 5.1 .

AUTHORS

The watchdog utility and manual page were written by Sean Kelly <Mt smkelly@FreeBSD.org> and Poul-Henning Kamp <Mt phk@FreeBSD.org>.

Some contributions made by Jeff Roberson <Mt jeff@FreeBSD.org>.


WATCHDOG (8) October 18, 2014

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