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6 wdctl - show hardware watchdog status
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9 wdctl [options] [device...]
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12 Show hardware watchdog status. The default device is /dev/watchdog.
13 If more than one device is specified then the output is separated by
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16 If the device is already used or user has no permissions to read from
17 the device than wdctl reads data from sysfs. In this case information
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20 Note that the number of supported watchdog features is hardware spe‐
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24 -f, --flags list
25 Print only the specified flags.
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27 -F, --noflags
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30 -I, --noident
31 Do not print watchdog identity information.
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34 Do not print a header line for flags table.
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36 -o, --output list
37 Define the output columns to use in table of watchdog flags. If
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39 Use --help to get list of all supported columns.
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41 -O, --oneline
42 Print all wanted information on one line in key="value" output
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45 -r, --raw
46 Use the raw output format.
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48 -s, -settimeout seconds
49 Set the watchdog timeout in seconds.
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58 Display version information and exit.
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61 Display help text and exit.
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64 Karel Zak ⟨kzak@redhat.com⟩
65 Lennart Poettering ⟨lennart@poettering.net⟩
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68 The wdctl command is part of the util-linux package and is available
69 from Linux Kernel Archive ⟨https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-
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