Strange 'watchdog disabled' error message

From: Paul Boven (p.boven@chello.nl)
Date: Thu Jul 15 2004 - 16:01:23 EDT


Hi everyone,

Out of the blue (nobody logged into it etc.) our mailscanner (Solaris 9,
V210, 2x1GHz, 2GB) noted the following warning:

unix: [ID 892202 kern.warning] WARNING: Debugging requested; hardware
watchdog disabled; reboot to re-enable.

This is not a warning I've ever heard of, and neither has our omniscient
friend Google.
And 3 seconds after this message, the mimedefang-multiplexor running on
it died a mysterious death and we were without our daily spam all of a
sudden.

So, does anybody know what the error signified, and what might have
triggered it? And could that also cause random death of other processes?

Regards,

Paul Boven.
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