Watchdog program for the Berkshire Products Internal-Serial Watchdog in Command mode which was developed for the Deskplayer servers (a rack of 14 computers) and can be run as a client service that hard-reboots the computer if it becomes unresponsive.

dpwatch - Berkshire products watchdog driver 

Device settings:

  -device dev    watchdog device (default: /dev/ttyS1)  

Runtime settings:

  -delay #       # seconds delay between commands (default: 60)

  -status #      # loops between status messages (default: 60)

  -error #       tolerate # errors before exiting (default: 100)  Special commands:

  -reset         reset computer after 10 seconds (use with caution) 

• dpwatch.tar.gz (Linux source, 3.6K, .tgz archive)

GPL Copyright (C) 1999/2000 A. Schiffler