Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 18:43:45 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fernando_Apestegu=EDa?= <fernando.apesteguia@gmail.com> To: tzabal@it.teithe.gr Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GSoC Project: Automated Kernel Crash Reporting System - Discussion Message-ID: <CAGwOe2ZR=bdXUXMUteFOL3caD9pH3vd8vhNQb5ryAwSqDRfFcQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20120516003020.82068pr8h9dyqjfw@webmail.teithe.gr> References: <20120516003020.82068pr8h9dyqjfw@webmail.teithe.gr>
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On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 11:30 PM, <tzabal@it.teithe.gr> wrote: > Hello Community, > > I have the project "Automated Kernel Crash Reporting System" for this GSoC > and I would like to discuss my plans about it before starting the coding on > May 21. > > I have created a page in the FreeBSD Wiki > (http://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2012/AutomatedKernelCrashReportingSystem) > where I describe in details the architecture of the system. > > Here are some points that I would like to be discussed: > > * The implementation of the kcrashreporter is planned to be done in two > shell scripts. The first shell script is a rc.d script and the second is the > actual program. I choose to code it in shell because kcrashreporter invokes > the kgdb to collect the necessary debugging information. I think that using > the shell instead of traditional programming language for this kind of job > is more straightforward and natural. Do you have a different opinion? > > * Can you recommend a secure way of sending a report from a FreeBSD system > to the Central Collector machine? > > * Which data do you want kcrashreporter to collect? At the moment I have > considered the panic message, the backtrace, the version level of the > release, the hardware platform (uname -vm) and the configuration file of the > panicked kernel (config -x `sysctl -n kern.bootfile`). I wonder if it would be good to have a configuration file to specify the amount of information (the type of, also) the system is going to send. Just my 2 cents. > > * Do you propose a different Web Server than the Apache HTTP Server? For > example, on my initial planning I had included MySQL as the selected DBMS > and after some discussions I changed to PostgreSQL. > > > Any comment regarding the project is more than welcome. > > Thank you, > Tzanetos > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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