[pve-devel] systemd notify/watchdog

[Dietmar Maurer]

> >>work without opening /dev/watchdog? 
> 
> I think it's different than hardware watchdog (in case of system hang).
> 
> Here it's more software watchdog, services tell to systemd that they are
> running. 
> (for pvestatd, between each loop for example)
> and if systemd don't receive the notify, it's restart the service.

I use the following:

# grep watchdog /etc/systemd/system.conf  -i
RuntimeWatchdogSec=20
ShutdownWatchdogSec=5min


Ant this opens /dev/watchdog!

So the question is if this is required?