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Date:      Tue, 18 Oct 2011 23:31:37 +1030
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com>
Cc:        Thomas Zander <thomas.e.zander@googlemail.com>, freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Interpreting MCA error output
Message-ID:  <59140016-4530-4343-9C30-CA9B16E9EEBD@gsoft.com.au>
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On 18/10/2011, at 22:03, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
>> It would be _super_ neat if the mcelog port installed a devd rule =
which emailed root@ with the human readable version of an MCA exception =
:)
>>=20
>> I suspect this wouldn't be too difficult to do for a JKH.
>=20
> Why?  Most MCEs on FreeBSD will panic the machine.  I would need to go
> through the MCA code to see what all gets handled elegantly, but I
> imagine there isn't much.

If you see an MCA in your log file it didn't panic your machine, I think =
they're not uncommon.

> Also, isn't devd for device removal/insertions?  This would be using
> devd for something it isn't intended for.  I guess I have "moral
> objections" to it.  What you're really wanting is Solaris's fmd(1m)
> daemon, which I believe is also tied heavily into Solaris's smf(5)
> architecture.

I always thought devd was a fairly general event notification thing.

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