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Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 22:49:02 -0700
From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org>
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Sean Kelly wrote this message on Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 19:23 -0500:
> watchdog_tickle()

Why not pet the dog to keep it happy.  If you tickle it, it might bite
your hand off!

(A friend of mine told me that the man page for Solaris talks about
petting the dog to keep it from rebooting the box, etc.)

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