Package: watchdog
Version: 5.2.4-4
When using the watchdog daemon with the verbose switch (-v), one would
expect it to report once every logtick a with message "still alive". It
does that only one time, however, and fails to report in after that.
This is due to a problem in watchdog.c, where the ticker gets reset
twice: first to the value of logtick, and then to 0. The logging condition
(--ticker==0) will never evaluate to true again after that.
I suggest applying the following change to watchdog.c, which corrects
this behaviour:
--- watchdog.c.orig Tue Jul 8 14:34:19 2003
+++ watchdog.c Tue Sep 27 20:07:52 2005
@@ -838,7 +838,7 @@
/* do verbose logging */
if (verbose) {
count += logtick;
- ticker = 0;
+ /* (bug: ticker == logtick and must not be reset here.) ticker = 0;
*/
syslog(LOG_INFO, "still alive after %ld seconds = %ld interval(s)",
count * tint, count);
}
#endif /* USE_SYSLOG */
We're using the watchdog package on Sarge and have ported it to Red Hat Linux,
too.
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