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 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 arrange‐
              ment  is specified, then a default set is used.  Use --help to get list of all sup‐
              ported 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 ⟨kzak AT redhat.com⟩
       Lennart Poettering ⟨lennart AT 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                                  July 2014                                    WDCTL(8)