Watchdog errors in syslog

PrayingMantis · 02-01-2012, 03:37 AM

I have a watchdog daemon process which starts up right away to feed the hardware watchdog. However, it is supposed to monitor some other process, which have not yet started. As a result of this, every time I boot up my board, I get errors such as : PID file not found in the syslog.
However, I have handled it in the repair-binary script, and it does not try to repair it for the first 120 seconds, I was just curious if there is any better way to handle this - and get rid of the errors during startup?

Thanks,
Mantis

acid_kewpie · 02-01-2012, 04:51 AM

well fundamentally, don't start the watchdog until the process you want to look for has started. Sorry if that sounds obvious, but you've not given us much else to go on. What is this board running? Can you change the starting time of the services as per a normal sysVinit distro?

PrayingMantis · 02-01-2012, 05:10 AM

Hi Chris,

Thanks for the reply.

Yes, I can change the order of service startup using normal sysVinit Sxx. However, there is a lot of dependency on the scripts. For example, the watchdog not only has to monitor the processes but also for certain files - that must exist, for processes which are to be monitored by watchdog can start and also ping some specific IPs . So, I don't think I will be able to move the watchdog service down in order.

Any other way?