watchdogd -- not on system and yet it's running!?
 

I just looked at the processes running on my system and this has me confused. I have a process for 'watchdogd' but there's no watchdogd executable that I can find. I'm running Slackware 15.0 and here's some outputs:

root@bathroom:/home/jim# ps aux|grep watchdogd
root 147 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Apr16 0:00 [watchdogd]
root 8051 0.0 0.0 3968 2300 pts/15 S+ 14:16 0:00 grep watchdogd

root@bathroom:/home/jim# which watchdog
which: no watchdog in (/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin)

root@bathroom:/home/jim# man watchdog
No manual entry for watchdog

root@bathroom:/home/jim# uname -r
5.12.10

kernel is vmlinuz-huge-5.12.10

Any ideas would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Jim

It's a kernel-side thing. It does not exists in the user space (your system) so nothing to see there.

You can find other things about it by searching the man pages.

Thanks guys. I appreciate the quick and informative responses. Looks like there's noting to worry about.

The one thing I forgot to mention is there's no 'dev/watchdog' and 'insmod watchdog' fails with "No such file or directory". I could use this for a server that likes to crash when I'm half way across the US so should I open a new thread or continue this one and mark it unsolved?

Thanks again,
Jim