On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Nick French wrote:
> What I mean is can this timer be set so that it reboots the machine.
> So for instance a piece of software that is running can keep resetting the
> timer to stop the reset then if the software hangs for some reason (after
This is commonly known as a watchdog. It could be useful, if LinuxBIOS is
used to power a router (anyone here done that?), which needs to stay
up at all time.
-- Eugen* Leitl
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