raspbian watchdog

Install the watchdog daemon on raspberry pi raspbian

update `firmware`

$ sudo -s
# rpi-update

install the watchdog deamon

# apt-get install watchdog

load the watchdog module

# modprobe bcm2708_wdog
# echo "bcm2708_wdog" >> /etc/modules  

set /etc/watchdog.conf ...
this is what I ended up enabling

# cat /etc/watchdog.conf |egrep -v "^#.*"

max-load-1  = 24
max-load-5  = 18
max-load-15  = 12



watchdog-device = /dev/watchdog



realtime  = yes
priority  = 1

I just need to watch for system hangs ... the ping and the user commands seem nice though.

# shutdown -r now

raspberry pi software watchdog