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wdctl

WDCTL(8)						       System Administration							  WDCTL(8)

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 number of supported watchdog features is hardware specific.

OPTIONS

       -f, --flags list
	      Print selected flags only.

       -F, --noflags
	      Do not print information about flags.

       -n, --noheadings
	      Do not print a header line for flags table.

       -I, --noident
	      Do not print watchdog identity information.

       -T, --notimeouts
	      Do not print watchdog timeouts.

       -s, --settimeout seconds
	      Set the watchdog timeout in seconds.

       -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.

       -V, --version
	      Output version information and exit.

       -r, --raw
	      Use the raw output format.

       -x, --flags-only
	      Same as -I -T.

       -h, --help
	      Print a help text and exit.

AUTHORS

       Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
       Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>

AVAILABILITY

       The  wdctl command is part of the util-linux package and is available from Linux Kernel Archive <ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-
       linux/>.

util-linux							     June 2012								  WDCTL(8)

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