[ol6_latest_archive] watchdog-5.6-4.el6_6.x86_64

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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• Mon Oct 13 2014 Ales Ledvinka <aledvink@redhat.com> - 5.6-4

  - With no value provided for watchdog-timeout do not attempt
    to set it. Avoid conflict with custom module parameter.
  - Resolves: rhbz#1099604

• Thu Aug 08 2013 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> - 5.6-2

  - Rename README.Fedora to README.RHEL on RHEL.

• Tue Aug 06 2013 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> - 5.6-1

  - Rebase to 5.6 (the same version as RHEL 5)
    Resolves: rhbz#870217

• Thu Feb 03 2011 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> - 5.5-10

  - Import watchdog initscript from Rawhide, includes some LSB-compliance
    fixes.
    Resolves: rhbz#584701

• Tue Jan 25 2011 Lon Hohberger <lhh@redhat.com> - 5.5-9

  - Add man page information on test-directory
    (bz657750-5-man_page_information_for_test_directory.patch)
    Resolves: rhbz#657750

• Mon Jan 24 2011 Lon Hohberger <lhh@redhat.com> - 5.5-8

  - Add watchdog.d handling
    (bz657750-1-add-watchdog-d.patch)
    This makes the scripts in /etc/watchdog.d behave slightly differently
    (bz657750-2-script-handling.patch)
    Add test-directory to configuration file
    (bz657750-3-add_test_directory_to_configuration_file.patch)
    Log which binaries fail
    (bz657750-4-Log-binary-names.patch)
    Resolves: rhbz#657750

• Fri Jan 29 2010 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> - 5.5-7.1

  - Import Fedora Rawhide package (includes fixed Source0 URL).

• Wed Jan 13 2010 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> - 5.5-7

  - Fix Source0 URL.

• Mon Jul 27 2009 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 5.5-6

  - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Mass_Rebuild

• Fri Mar 13 2009 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> - 5.5-5

  - Updated the cleanup patch and sent upstream.

• Fri Mar 13 2009 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> - 5.5-3

  - Remove dubious "cleanup-nfs" patch.

• Thu Mar 05 2009 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> - 5.5-2

  - Use '-' in defattr line instead of explicit file mode.

• Thu Feb 26 2009 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> - 5.5-1

  - New upstream version 5.5.
  - Prepared the package for Fedora review.

• 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.