There is a new version of watchdog: 5.4. It should give more human readable error messages e.g. in mails.
Created attachment 130026 [details, diff] Changes from watchdog-5.3.1_p2.ebuild to watchdog-5.4_p1.ebuild I added a few more useful documentation files to the dodoc invocation. The sundries patch is included in the sources, the other two apply with some offset. The debian patch is empty at the moment, but for the sake of minimum changes I kept the debian patchlevel infrastructure in place.
Quotation from the ChangeLog: - Added "another-chance" repair script written by Erik Rossen <rossen@prolibre.com>. - Applied some changes to RedHat init script. - Added sysconf script for RedHat. - 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
Bumped, thanks Martin.