How To Install freeipmi-bmc-watchdog on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install freeipmi-bmc-watchdog on CentOS 8.
What is freeipmi-bmc-watchdog
Provides a watchdog daemon for OS monitoring and recovery.
We can use yum or dnf to install freeipmi-bmc-watchdog on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install freeipmi-bmc-watchdog.
Install freeipmi-bmc-watchdog on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install freeipmi-bmc-watchdog using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install freeipmi-bmc-watchdog
Install freeipmi-bmc-watchdog on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install freeipmi-bmc-watchdog using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install freeipmi-bmc-watchdog
How To Uninstall freeipmi-bmc-watchdog on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the freeipmi-bmc-watchdog package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove freeipmi-bmc-watchdog
freeipmi-bmc-watchdog Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/sysconfig/bmc-watchdog
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/f3
/usr/lib/.build-id/f3/94c11cc05a3214cc753a792d1f15bd3498aefa
/usr/lib/systemd/system/bmc-watchdog.service
/usr/sbin/bmc-watchdog
/usr/share/doc/freeipmi/COPYING.bmc-watchdog
/usr/share/doc/freeipmi/DISCLAIMER.bmc-watchdog
/usr/share/doc/freeipmi/DISCLAIMER.bmc-watchdog.UC
/usr/share/man/man8/bmc-watchdog.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install freeipmi-bmc-watchdog on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.