I am trying to use the software watchdog kernel module called softdog. I am not sure how to use it properly.
I have removed the module from ...
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-watchdog.conf
Then I have run...
modprobe softdog
This resulted in the following line in dmesg...
│[60656.721980] softdog: initialized. soft_noboot=0 soft_margin=60 sec soft_panic=0 (nowayout=0)
So it seems like softdog was initialized correctly.
Once softdog initializes the files /dev/watchdog and /dev/watchdog0 are created.
But I have not started a watchdog daemon, so I assume no one is feeding these files (no clue why there is two).
I am expecting that because I do not have a watchdog daemon installed, that softdog will reboot the system....but this is not what I am seeing. (fyi I plan on installing a watchdog daemon once I can confirm that softdog module is capable of restarting the system).
Has anyone ever successfully configured the softdog module to work as a software watchdog?
