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Package: watchdog (5.6-8)

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

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  • dep: debconf (>= 0.5)
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    or debconf-2.0
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  • 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 (>= 2.6) [sparc]
  • dep: libc6.1 (>= 2.3.3) [ia64]
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    also a virtual package provided by libc6.1-udeb
  • dep: lsb-base (>= 3.2-14)
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  • dep: makedev (>= 2.3.1-24)
    creates device files in /dev
    or udev
    /dev/ and hotplug management daemon

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Architecture Package Size Installed Size Files
amd64 76.7 kB296 kB [list of files]
armel 72.3 kB280 kB [list of files]
hppa 78.3 kB292 kB [list of files]
i386 72.4 kB280 kB [list of files]
ia64 95.4 kB376 kB [list of files]
mips 76.6 kB308 kB [list of files]
mipsel 77.0 kB308 kB [list of files]
powerpc 76.2 kB296 kB [list of files]
s390 76.6 kB292 kB [list of files]
sparc 74.0 kB288 kB [list of files]