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Subject: Re: What is correct way to enable watchdog?
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> Which watchdog are you using? 

We are using the default FreeBSD 7.0 watchdog. We've added the line 

watchdogd_enable="yes" 

to rc.conf to enable it and have modified /etc/rc.d/watchdogd to pass "-t 300" to the daemon instead of the default 16.