[el5_latest] watchdog-5.6-1.el5.i386

The watchdog program can be used as a powerful software watchdog daemon
or may be alternately used with a hardware watchdog device such as the
IPMI hardware watchdog driver interface to a resident Baseboard
Management Controller (BMC).  watchdog periodically writes to /dev/watchdog;
the interval between writes to /dev/watchdog is configurable through settings
in the watchdog sysconfig file.  This configuration file is also used to
set the watchdog to be used as a hardware watchdog instead of its default
software watchdog operation.  In either case, if the device is open but not
written to within the configured time period, the watchdog timer expiration
will trigger a machine reboot. When operating as a software watchdog, the
ability to reboot will depend on the state of the machine and interrupts.
When operating as a hardware watchdog, the machine will experience a hard
reset (or whatever action was configured to be taken upon watchdog timer
expiration) initiated by the BMC.

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• Thu Mar 26 2009 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> - 5.6-1

  - Rebase to watchdog 5.6.
  - Drop cleanup patch, since it is now upstream.
  - Drop NFS cleanup patch, since it breaks NFS support for one call.
  - Add patch for general cleanups (sent upstream 2009-03-26).
  - Add patch to quiet write warnings about unused return values.

• Thu Mar 12 2009 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> - 5.5-1

  - New upstream release 5.5 - Resolves: 446123
  - Synchronize the spec file formatting with Fedora.
  - Upstream source URL has changed (_ into -).
  - Convert README file to UTF-8.
  - Fix defattr line.
  - Manpages shouldn't be marked as doc.
  - Added wd_keepalive manpage.

• Mon Jun 11 2007 Lon Hohberger <lhh@redhat.com> - 5.3.1-7

  - Rebuild for RHEL5 Update 1 - Resolves: 227401

• Wed May 30 2007 Konrad Rzeszutek <konradr@redhat.com> - 5.3.1-6

  - Fixed the init script file.

• Tue May 29 2007 Konrad Rzeszutek <konradr@redhat.com> - 5.3.1-5

  - Fixed a compile warning in nfsmount_xdr file.

• Wed May 23 2007 Konrad Rzeszutek <konradr@redhat.com> - 5.3.1-4

  - Fixed rpmlint warnings.

• Wed May 16 2007 Konrad Rzeszutek <konradr@redhat.com> - 5.3.1-3

  - Changes to spec, init script and README file per Carol Hebert recommendation.

• Thu Apr 19 2007 Konrad Rzeszutek <konradr@redhat.com> - 5.3.1-2

  - Added README.watchdog.ipmi

• Mon Apr 16 2007 Konrad Rzeszutek <konradr@redhat.com> - 5.3.1-1

  - Initial copy.