[Soekris] Soekris] 4801 thats stopped responding

[Jan Ceuleers]

Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote:
> 2) I set up the watchdog last nite. I set it for 120 seconds. About 
> 15 minutes ago it rebooted while the device was still operational. 
> I think thats what I ran into previously, that it would reboot
> when it was still running fine. I previously set it for 15 and then
> 30 seconds. I thought 120 would be WAY more than necessary..

It's not enough to enable the watchdog timer, you also need to run a 
daemon to periodically clear the timer.

Please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watchdog_timer

Whereever you found instructions on how to set the watchdog timer, you 
should also be able to find pointers to the matching daemon.

Cheers, Jan