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Subject: Re: strange softdog message on 2.4.20 kernel...
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Matthew Qvapul <pikpus@wp.pl>
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On Llu, 2004-08-23 at 17:51, Matthew Qvapul wrote:
> 2) /sbin/modprobe softdog soft_margin=900
> 3) grep "adg" > /dev/watchdog
> 
> SOFTDOG: WDT device closed unexpectedly.  WDT will not stop!

You closed it without indicating you meant to close it so the timer
decided the watchdog daemon had died. Thats configurable when 
building the kernel (NOWAYOUT option)

Alan