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| author |   jmc <jmc@openbsd.org> | 2005-09-14 08:12:23 +0000 |
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| committer | jmc <jmc@openbsd.org> | 2005-09-14 08:12:23 +0000 |
| commit | f1cb76d254e45bb926632f1f1a769e4cfe490429 (patch) | |
| tree | be3369158714d37efbd93537e0e59e21f5e2c4f7 | |
| parent | point watchdog(4) readers to watchdogd(8); (diff) | |
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beef up DESCRIPTION a little, and point the reader to watchdog(4);
diff from michael knudsen, tweaked by me;
originally requested (in one form or another) by alexey e. suslikov;
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.sbin/watchdogd/watchdogd.8 | 15 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/watchdogd/watchdogd.8 b/usr.sbin/watchdogd/watchdogd.8 index 51f038e5c60..6b3024523ae 100644 --- a/usr.sbin/watchdogd/watchdogd.8 +++ b/usr.sbin/watchdogd/watchdogd.8 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: watchdogd.8,v 1.4 2005/09/12 10:10:45 jmc Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: watchdogd.8,v 1.5 2005/09/14 08:12:23 jmc Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2005 Marc Balmer <marc@msys.ch> .\" @@ -30,12 +30,23 @@ is a daemon to periodically retrigger the .Xr watchdog 4 timer device from userland. -After every +.Nm +is designed to work in high load environments, +where other methods +(such as a shell script invoking +.Xr sysctl 8 ) +would involve too much overhead. +.Pp +The basic premise is that +after every .Ar interval seconds, .Nm resets the hardware timer to .Ar period . +See also +.Xr watchdog 4 +for more information on how watchdog timers work. .Pp The options are as follows: .Bl -tag -width Ds |