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

[Dietmar Maurer]

> > 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