unversal watchdog

[Tobias Roth]

On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 09:53:17PM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> On Monday 27 February 2006 21:11, Vitaliy Ovsyannikov wrote:
> >   I've stuck with the unable to make watchdogs for daemons running via
> > startup rc-scripts. In linux we can just put the process in the
> > inittab. Does FreeBSD contains ability like this?
> 
> Create a script for /etc/rc.d (or /usr/local/etc/rc.d) - with a suitable entry 
> in rc.conf it will be started at boot.
> 
> man rc.subr plus a look through /etc/rc.d should get you started :)

Can you explain in more detail how one can handle the watchdog part of
the equation? I can't find that information in the rc.subr manpage.

thanks, Tobias