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Package: watchdog (5.6-8 and others)

A software watchdog

The watchdog program writes to /dev/watchdog every ten seconds. If the device is opened but not written to within a minute, the machine will reboot. This feature is available when the kernel is built with 'software watchdog' support (standard in Debian kernels).

The ability to reboot will depend on the state of the machine and interrupts.

Tags: User Interface: Daemon, Role: Program, Purpose: Monitoring

Other Packages Related to watchdog

  • depends
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  • dep: debconf (>= 0.5)
    Debian configuration management system
    or debconf-2.0
    virtual package provided by cdebconf, cdebconf-udeb, debconf
  • dep: libc6 (>= 2.3.3) [amd64, hppa, i386, mips, mipsel]
    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
    also a virtual package provided by libc6-udeb
    dep: libc6 (>= 2.4) [armel, powerpc, s390]
    dep: libc6 (>= 2.5) [avr32]
    dep: libc6 (>= 2.5-5) [m68k]
    dep: libc6 (>= 2.6) [sparc]
  • dep: libc6.1 (>= 2.3.3) [ia64]
    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
    also a virtual package provided by libc6.1-udeb
    dep: libc6.1 (>= 2.4) [alpha]
  • dep: lsb-base (>= 3.2-14)
    Linux Standard Base 3.2 init script functionality
  • dep: makedev (>= 2.3.1-24)
    creates device files in /dev
    also a virtual package provided by hurd
    or udev
    /dev/ and hotplug management daemon

Download watchdog

Download for all available architectures
Architecture Version Package Size Installed Size Files
alpha 5.6-8 81.3 kB316 kB [list of files]
amd64 5.6-8 76.7 kB296 kB [list of files]
armel 5.6-8 72.3 kB280 kB [list of files]
avr32 (unofficial port) 5.6-8 71.0 kB268 kB [list of files]
hppa 5.6-8 78.3 kB292 kB [list of files]
i386 5.6-8 72.4 kB280 kB [list of files]
ia64 5.6-8 95.4 kB376 kB [list of files]
m68k (unofficial port) 5.6-4 68.5 kB276 kB [list of files]
mips 5.6-8 76.6 kB308 kB [list of files]
mipsel 5.6-8 77.0 kB308 kB [list of files]
powerpc 5.6-8 76.2 kB296 kB [list of files]
s390 5.6-8 76.6 kB292 kB [list of files]
sparc 5.6-8 74.0 kB288 kB [list of files]