Use the watchdog timer to automatically reboot the board if the user doesn't feed it every 30 seconds by sending text to stdin.
The timer can be stopped by typing q or quit.
Refer to the top-level README for instructions on building.
Run:
# (on the VM) sftp the executable into the BBB
sftp-bbb
> put build/bin/watchdog
# (on the BBB) run
./watchdoghttps://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-api.txt