Fri Feb 23 13:26:14 MET 1996

	- Watchdog 1.0 released.

Tue Mar  5 09:11:34 MET 1996

	- Fixed two bugs in watchdog.c reported (and patched) by 
	  Johannes Kroeger <fiction!squirrel.owl.de!jkroeger@golden-gate.owl.de>:
	  Watchdog now tries to open /dev/watchdog before tugging its
	  process ID away.

	- Released version 1.1

Thu May 23 14:20:59 MET DST 1996

	- Added process table watch routine.

	- Process filemode before sleeping.

	- Released version 1.2

Thu May 30 13:00:44 MET DST 1996

	- Watchdog now correctly shuts down the system if the
	  process table is full
 
Mon Jul 29 13:51:42 MET DST 1996

	- Finally watchdog is able to shut down the system even if
	  the process table remains full after killing all processes.

	- Released version 2.0 (this was a major overhaul)

Fri Jan 31 13:39:43 MET 1997

	- Disconnect deamon from console.

	- Close file descriptors 0, 1, 2 when compiled with USE_SYSLOG.

	- Cleaned up source code.

	- Write the softdog device between each check, since the increasing
	  number of checks might cause problems otherise.

	- Test the system load average and reboot if it is too high.

Thu Apr  3 11:14:07 MET DST 1997

	- Fixed that nasty bug that caused the root partion to stay mounted
	  during a soft reboot.

	- Fixed another bug that caused watchdog to kill itself during
	  reboot before all the work was done.

Wed Jun  4 20:16:23 CEST 1997

	- Finally soft reboot works as advertised.

	- Tested NFS access in filemode.

Fri Jun  6 22:55:16 CEST 1997

	- Added ping mode: soft reboot is initiated if a given
	  network/host does not answer.

Wen Jun 11 09:25:36 CEST 1997

	- Added file table check: reboot if file table overflow occurs.

Mon Jun 16 12:10:55 CEST 1997

	- Upgraded to mount 2.6g.
	- Compile and link with glibc.
	- Implemented call to user provides test binary.

Tue Jun 17 13:35:15 CEST 1997

	- Added examples for test scripts.

Wed Jun 18 15:51:10 CEST 1997

	- Default sleep interval now configurable via Makefile.

Fri Jun 20 10:51:56 CEST 1997

	- Added call to repair script.

Tue Jun 24 15:31:03 CEST 1997

	- Repair script now calls logger to create a syslog entry.

Thu Jun 26 21:40:37 CEST 1997

	- Fixed call of repair script.
	- Let watchdog sleep five seconds before closelog() to make sure
          everything is written to the logs.

Mon Jun 30 13:48:08 CEST 1997

	- Make sure files are only opened once.
	- Work even if there is no /dev/watchdog.

Mon Jun 30 21:07:39 CEST 1997

	- Implemented temperature test.
	- Added double fork() to inherit rights from init. Now watchdog will
          unmount all partitions correctly regardless what your current
          working directory is when you start it. My thanks go to Peter Tobias
          <tobias@et-inf.fho-emden.de> for pointing me into the right direction.

Wed Jul  2 11:00:49 CEST 1997

	- Halt the system if temperature is too high, but send mail to the
	  sysadmin prior doing that.

Thu Jul  3 16:22:47 CEST 1997

	- Include fully quantified hostname in Subject: line for mail.

Fri Jul 11 10:38:39 CEST 1997

	- Released version 3.0.

Fri Jul 11 10:49:31 CEST 1997

	- Fixed small typo in Makefile.

Wed Sep  3 12:33:32 CEST 1997

	- Corrected temperature reading code.
	- Include patch to mount.c for sparcs.
	- Write warning to log file when temperature start climbing to high.

Sun Oct 19 11:22:26 CEST 1997

	- No more warnings about unused variables if compiled without
          USE_SYSLOG.
	- Some more glibc adjustments for glibc 2.0.5.

Fri Oct 24 11:40:07 CEST 1997

	- Released version 3.1.

Fri Nov 28 11:10:26 CET 1997

	- Changed handling of return value of repair script to take care of
          negative return value.
	- Stop init before going down.

Fri Nov 28 11:26:50 CET 1997

	- Released version 3.2.

Tue Dec  2 10:02:43 CET 1997

	- Stupid me! Somehow I managed to release my test version without
          removing the call to halt the system regardless of the temperature
          that I used for my last test. I'm sorry. Hope it didn't cause too
          much problems.
	- Released version 3.3.

Tue Dez 30 11:35:03 CET 1997

	- Reorganized watchdog source files. 
	- Implemented no-action option.

Fri Jan  2 16:30:56 CET 1998

	- Made watchdog a real-time application.
	- To enable this I had to change the process-table check code so no
	  hang can occur there.

Thu Sep 10 17:22:32 CEST 1998

	- Updated mount code to version 2.8 something. Thanks to the one who
	  send me the patches. Unfortunately I lost his email-address.

Fri Sep 11 16:22:28 CEST 1998

	- Updated test binary stuff to make sure it won't reboot the system
	  if binary runs for too long.

Tue Sep 15 13:28:35 CEST 1998

	- Allow multiple filenames resp. ip-addresses.

Fri Sep 18 16:10:56 CEST 1998

	- Move all options with arguments to watchdog.conf and added long
	  options for the remaining ones.
	- Added option -c to add config file name.

Mon Sep 21 13:16:15 CEST 1998

	- Output file modification time in verbose mode.
	- Added check for constant changing of a file.

Mon Sep 21 15:23:54 CEST 1998

	- Updated man pages.

Thu Oct 15 18:21:57 CEST 1998

	- Released version 4.0.

Fri Oct 16 14:22:15 CEST 1998

	- Received patches for RedHat. Argh, should have waited with
	  releasing 4.0.
	- Some more modifications to repair.sh.

Wed Okt 21 13:33:21 CEST 1998

	- Moved configuration to config.h.

Tue Okt 27 20:49:23 MEZ 1998

	- Released 4.1.

Mon Nov 23 09:33:20 MEZ 1998

	- Changed union name in extern.h from options to wdog_options to be
	  able to compile on libc5 systems.

Tue Nov 24 14:32:41 MEZ 1998

	- Added patches by Sascha Schumann <sas@schell.de> for libc5
	  compatibility.

Thu Jan 14 13:43:53 CET 1999

	- Fixed the bug in read_config that caused the max-load-15 line to
	  be read as max-load-1 = 5.

Thu Jan 14 14:17:35 CET 1999

	- And fixed another silly bug that caused ping mode to not work
	  anymore.

Wed Jan 20 21:03:30 CET 1999

	- Switched to GNU autoconf, work done by Sascha Schumann
	  <sas@schell.de>.

Fri Jan 22 17:30:41 CET 1999

	- Restructured the configuration management. No need to specify
	  compile time defaults for parameters changeable via
	  /etc/watchdog.conf.

Sat Jan 30 08:58:47 CET 1999

	- Released 4.2.

Mon Feb  1 18:16:04 CET 1999

	- Fixed autoconf bug so CONFIG_FILENAME default is correct.
	- Added info about zombie process to docs.

Fri Feb  5 07:33:47 CET 1999

	- Removed remount call so the one reported hang cannot happen
	  anymore. This call wasn't really needed anyway.
	- Released 4.3.

Thu Feb 18 08:02:01 CET 1999

	- Fixed typo in manpage.

Fri Feb 19 07:49:51 CET 1999

	- Send mail even in case of reboot.
	- Close log only after the last write.
	- Fixed getopt_long handling.

Fri Feb 19 21:33:26 CET 1999

	- Create directory before installing CONFIG_FILENAME.

Sun Feb 28 13:05:11 CET 1999

	- Released 4.4.

Sat Apr 10 14:30:59 CEST 1999

	- Added RedHat patches by Marc Merlin.
	- Made ret an int variable.
	- Include stdio.h in src/umount.c.
	- Released 4.5.

Mon May  3 19:49:45 CEST 1999

	- Corrected INSTALL file to explicitely state that the .spec file is
	  not distributed together with watchdog.

Fri Sep  3 11:21:11 CEST 1999

	- Change compile time maxload defaults to 24/18/12.

Fre Sep  3 14:23:58 CEST 1999

	- Add test for free memory.

Mon Sep  6 07:40:07 CEST 1999

	- Added simple test script that tests whether /bin/sh can be
	  started.
	- Made load average check disabled by default.

Don Sep  9 19:56:06 CEST 1999

	- Added passive network test and server pinging test.

Sun Dec 19 13:18:35 CET 1999

	- Fixed big in test_binary.c that caused not existing errors to be
	  logged.
	- Add red label in watchdog.8 to not use broadcast ping without
	  explicit permission.

Mon Dec 20 14:54:58 CET 1999

	- Released 5.0.

Mon Dec 27 17:07:51 CET 1999

	- Fixed silly calculation bug in memory check.
	- Disable memory check for default setup.
	- Released 5.1.

Sat May  6 17:01:37 MEST 2000

	- added /etc/sysconfig/watchdog to the rc.watchdog.redhat script
	- added some ifdefs to include/mount_constants.h for compilation on
	  RedHat 6.2 without some warnings about redefined symbols
	- added "logtick" option to the watchdog binary (I wanted to do this
	  for a very long time -- hps)

Mon Jul 24 16:49:11 PDT 2000

	- added patch by Hisaaki Shibata <shibata@luky.org> to add number of
	  times a ping is tried to config file

Son Mar 25 14:18:45 CEST 2001

	- Made watchdog work with kernel 2.4.
	- Send a more verbose email.
	- Made watchdog compile with latest libc6.

Thu May 10 14:19:57 CEST 2001

	- Finally released 5.2.

Thu May 10 15:11:45 CEST 2001

	- Started to integrate stuff written by Marcel Jansen
	  <marcel@appliancestudio.com>.
	- Decided to move to version 6.0.

Fre Jan  3 14:47:46 CET 2003

	- Added patch by Patrick Higgins <phiggins@transzap.com> to catch test
	  programs running for too long and react to that fact.
	- Fixed pidfile check. A missing file usually means the server exited
	  and thus watchdog needs to take action.
	- Finally really started adding Marcel's patches:
		* Redirection of stdout/stderr for test and repair binary.
		* Write timestamps to heartbeat file.
		* Add wd_keepalive program that uses the same config file,
		  but only updates the watchdog device.
	- Fixed shutdown with missing sendmail program.
	- Added two bug fixes by Stephane List <stephane.list@fr.alcove.com>.
	- Added patch by Jos Vos <jos@xos.nl> for a "write-magic" config
	  parameter.
	- Use unsigned ints for free memory check.
	  
Mo Apr 17 14:35:29 CEST 2006

	- Fixed some bugs:
		* unsigned int is too small for free memory check
		* Man page still referencing options that are no longer
		  available.
	- Logtick option is used for verbose output in all tests

We Jun 21 15:42:28 CEST 2006

	- Added patch by Thomas Glanzmann <sithglan@abortium.glanzmann.de> for
	  correct parsing of ping-count option.
	- Added a patch by James Harper <james.harper@bendigoit.com.au> to fix
	  that nasty ping problem. Thanks a lot.
	- Applied some bug fix patches by Christoph Probst <chris@netzpunkt.org>.
	- Changed interface check to use unsigned long.
	- Some more small fixes.

Mo Jul 31 11:13:04 CEST 2006

	- Added patch by Richard Hansen <gentoo-a7x@scientician.org> to fix
	  intervals being 50% too long.

Mon Feb 12 10:45:21 CET 2007

	- Hopefully fixed outstanding problems with wd_keepalive.
	- Added some documentation about return values of the test binary.
	- Released 5.3.

Wed Feb 21 17:33:30 CET 2007

	- Removed superfluous quotation from wd_keepalive.c.
	- Added sourceforge as new primary archive site.

Thu Feb 22 11:48:57 CET 2007

	- Released 5.3.1.

Thu, 26 Apr 2007 15:08:07 +0200

	- Added "another-chance" repair script written by Erik Rossen
	  <rossen@prolibre.com>.

Tue, 29 May 2007 16:34:34 +0200

	- Applied some changes to RedHat init script.
	- Added sysconf script for RedHat.

Fri, 17 Aug 2007 11:15:08 +0200

	- Made wd_keepalive honor config file option.
	- Added wd_keealive manpage.
	- Made wd_keepalive not start without a watchdog device.
	- Fixed some typos in watchdog manpage.
	- Updated Debian files.
	- Released 5.4

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 13:57:34 +0100

	- Check for existance before usage of sendmail.

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:00:48 +0100

	- Added patch by Jan Rouš <jaro@koukaam.se> to prevent rare segfault on
	  shutdown.

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 10:27:35 +0100

	- Added patch by Enrique Zanardi <ezanardi@atlantux.com> to let repair
	  binary know more about the failing test.
	- Expanded that patch to work for more tests.
	- Released version 5.5

Tue,  3 Mar 2009 14:59:55 +0100

	- Added patch by Enrique Zanardi <ezanardi@atlantux.com> to
	  check for the source of the ping reply packets.

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:36:01 +0100

	- Added patch by Lon Hohberger <lhh@redhat.com> to allow configuration
	  of timeouts.
	- Added another patch by Lon Hohberger <lhh@redhat.com> to make sure
	  signal handler does not call not-signal safe functions.
	- Made wd_keepalive accept all options watchdog accepts and not throw
	  errors on those it does not use itself.

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 12:26:40 +0100

	- Made watchdog not close the watchdog device so early when trying a
	  normal shutdown. This ensures a reset even if the system hangs while
	  doing this.
	- Applied patch by Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> to cleanup
	  code base for gcc-4.4.

Sun, 22 Mar 2009 14:33:21 +0100

	- Some more bugfixes by me and Lon.
	- Released 5.6

Mon, 25 May 2009 02:46:32 +0200

	- Allow config lines with arbitrary length.
	- Applied patch by Mike Frysinger to not use deprecated sys_siglist
	  anymore.
	- Also removed configure test for sys_siglist.
	- Cleaned up includes, also courtesy of Mike Frysinger.

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:05:29 +0100

	- Applied patch by Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> to sets the
	  socket handle for raw socket access to close on exec.

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 13:36:37 +0100

	- Applied patch by Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> to give a
	  better error message if no config file is found.
	- Released version 5.7.	

Fri, 08 Jan 2010 11:02:23 +0100

	- Applied patch by Min Zhang <mzhang@mvista.com> to make logdir a
	  configurable option.

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:26:21 +0100

	- Disable OOM killer for watchdog and wd_keepalive. In the process also
	  make sure that the daemons do not allocate memory once they are in
	  daemon mode as a safeguard for systems running out of memory.

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:50:39 +0100

	- Decreased default interval from 10 seconds to just 1 because 10 is
	  too much for some hardware especially embedded systems.

Sat Mar 6 22:07:15 2010 +0100

	- Applied two patches by Jon Ringle <jon@ringle.org>:
	  - uclibc does not have index(), but strchr() is equivalent to index()
	    according to the index man page
	  - Fix compile with USE_SYSLOG disabled
	    Patch by Jon Ringle <jon@ringle.org>

Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:24:02 +0100

	- Released 5.8

Mon May 10 15:48:35 2010 +0200

	- Applied patches by Martin Koegler <mkoegler@auto.tuwien.ac.at>:
	  - Implementing a timeout for repair scripts
	  - Fixing a few bugs.

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 16:59:53 +0200

	- Added the ability to query the watchdog type based on work by Corey
	  Minyard <minyard@acm.org>   

ChangeLog ends here. Please refer to git log for later changes.