On Feb 08, Michael Meskes <mes...@debian.org> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 04:45:53AM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > If the defaults for some drivers are wrong then I can't see why they > > should not be fixed, but if default configuration parameters are needed > > then they should be provided by the watchdog package. > If the watchdog package is the only one using these modules that would be > fine. > But watchdog itself just expects a device to be present and only insmods a > module if one is manually configured. Other users might use these modules with > the user space daemon package but they still should get the right > configuration, don't you think? Or what am I missing. I am not aware of any other users of /dev/watchdog.
> > (BTW, is there any other watchdog daemon? The watchdog package reliably > > fails to detect when the system is half-killed by OOM.) > How about explaing your problem a little bit better and, if it's really a > failure in watchdog, reporting a bug? What exactly did you do? And how did you > configure watchdog? I use the default configuration. The system is broken enough that new TCP connections are established but apparently the running daemons cannot fork (e.g. I do not get a SMTP banner). I have no way of reproducing the issue. -- ciao, Marco
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