watchdogd

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Overview

watchdogd is a background daemon for petting the watchdog.

Synopsis:

watchdogd run [OPTIONS]
    Run the watchdogd in a child process (does not daemonize).
watchdogd stop
    Send a signal to arm the running watchdog.
watchdogd continue
    Send a signal to disarm the running watchdog.
watchdogd arm
    Send a signal to arm the running watchdog.
watchdogd disarm
    Send a signal to disarm the running watchdog.

Options:

--dev DEV: Device (default /dev/watchdog)
--timeout: Duration before timing out (default -1)
--pre_timeout: Duration for pretimeout (default -1)
--keep_alive: Duration between issuing keepalive (default 10)
--monitors: comma separated list of monitors, ex: oops