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authorJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2005-11-30 22:39:34 +0000
committerJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2005-11-30 22:39:34 +0000
commitf37e6a82525c430aacff5f2bd95a94ea4be4254c (patch)
treee451ea76cd2c50b3bff034ea710a34a66ffe2dc7 /share/man/man4
parent3343e7e8e1378b24228147eeed816ef6d7d5b959 (diff)
clean up the watchdog section;
Diffstat (limited to 'share/man/man4')
-rw-r--r--share/man/man4/man4.i386/esm.431
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man4/man4.i386/esm.4 b/share/man/man4/man4.i386/esm.4
index c1e73d863de..066ec45d91d 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/man4.i386/esm.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/man4.i386/esm.4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: esm.4,v 1.2 2005/11/30 20:23:36 marco Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: esm.4,v 1.3 2005/11/30 22:39:33 jmc Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2005 David Gwynne <dlg@openbsd.org>
.\"
@@ -51,25 +51,28 @@ monitored by the
.Xr ipmi 4
driver.
.Sh WATCHDOG
-ESM provides watchdog timer functionality.
-Once configured, if the watchdog is not reset within a x second timeout,
-the server will reset.
+ESM provides
+.Xr watchdog 4
+timer functionality.
+Once configured, if the watchdog is not reset within
+a certain period of time,
+it will timeout and the server will reset.
The reset will occur regardless of the recoverability of the hang or crash.
-.Bl -tag -width Ds
-.It Example of enabling a watchdog:
-sysctl -w kern.watchdog.period=10
-.El
.Pp
-In this case if the watchdog is not reset it'll reboot the server after roughly
-10 seconds.
+Example of enabling a watchdog:
.Pp
-.Bl -tag -width Ds
-.It Example of disabling watchdog:
-sysctl -w kern.watchdog.period=0
-.El
+.Dl # sysctl kern.watchdog.period=10
+.Pp
+In this case if the watchdog is not reset,
+it'll reboot the server after roughly 10 seconds.
+.Pp
+Example of disabling the watchdog:
+.Pp
+.Dl # sysctl kern.watchdog.period=0
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr intro 4 ,
.Xr ipmi 4 ,
+.Xr watchdog 4 ,
.Xr sensorsd 8 ,
.Xr sysctl 8
.Sh HISTORY