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WDCTL

Section: System Administration (8)
Updated: July 2014
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NAME

wdctl - show hardware watchdog status

SYNOPSIS

wdctl [options] [device...]

DESCRIPTION

Show hardware watchdog status. The default device is /dev/watchdog. If more than one device is specified then the output is separated by one blank line.

Note that the number of supported watchdog features is hardware specific.

OPTIONS

-f, --flags list: Print only the specified flags.
-F, --noflags: Do not print information about flags.
-I, --noident: Do not print watchdog identity information.
-n, --noheadings: Do not print a header line for flags table.
-o, --output list: Define the output columns to use in table of watchdog flags. If no output arrangement is specified, then a default set is used. Use --help to get list of all supported columns.
-O, --oneline: Print all wanted information on one line in key="value" output format.
-r, --raw: Use the raw output format.
-s, -settimeout seconds: Set the watchdog timeout in seconds.
-T, --notimeouts: Do not print watchdog timeouts.
-x, --flags-only: Same as -I -T.
-V, --version: Display version information and exit.
-h, --help: Display help text and exit.

AUTHORS

Karel Zak
Lennart Poettering

AVAILABILITY

The wdctl command is part of the util-linux package and is available from Linux Kernel Archive