On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 07:11:29PM -0300, Fernando Braga wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm having a bit of trouble using kern.watchdog.period. Every time I
> set it, my DELL 1850 turns off.
>
> In two different SSH sessions, I did the following:
>
> cefeu:2642:$ sysctl kern.watchdog
> kern.watchdog.period=0
> kern.watchdog.auto=1
> cefeu:2644:$ sudo sysctl kern.watchdog.period=300
> kern.watchdog.period: 0 -> 300
> cefeu:2645:$
>
> cefeu:2644:$ while : ; do echo "$(date +%H:%M:%S) $(sysctl
> kern.watchdog.period)"; sleep 1 ; done
> 18:50:48 kern.watchdog.period=0
> 18:50:49 kern.watchdog.period=0
> 18:50:50 kern.watchdog.period=0
> 18:50:51 kern.watchdog.period=300
>
> This period is measured in seconds, isn't it ?
watchdog(4) does think so. Otherwise, I'm afraid I can't help much...
Joachim
