[pve-devel] PVE 4.x watchdog-mux.service

Dietmar Maurer dietmar at proxmox.com
Tue Dec 6 06:12:44 CET 2016


> > What happened to /dev/watchdog?
> 
> No idea on most of our servers it does not exist.
> 
> # ls -la /dev/watchdog
> ls: cannot access /dev/watchdog: No such file or directory
> 
> Which module does create that device node?

watchdog-mux simply loads 'softdog' if you do not specify
a hardware watchdog:

# modprobe softdog

and this should generate /dev/watchdog




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