On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 7:27 PM, Thomas Bächler <[email protected]> wrote: > The watchdog package contains two daemons: wd_keepalive and watchdog. > > They both connect to /dev/watchdog and send keepalives to the kernel > watchdog driver, which in turn sends them to the watchdog chip. Once it > stops doing so, the watchdog chip will shut down or reboot the machine. The > kernel also has a software watchdog driver, but that will not detect if the > kernel itself locks up completely. > > Also, the watchdog daemon can monitor network, system load and other things > and will reboot the machine under certain conditions. > > The package is in AUR, but doesn't have too many votes. However, Dan was > planning to use this in gerolde (which we really should do) and thus it > should be an extra package. Opinions? > >
No objections here. If we are to use it on gerolde (doing it would be a good idea) then it makes sense to have it in extra.
