From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 20 12:17:47 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA09980 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 20 May 1996 12:17:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ibp.ibp.fr (ibp.ibp.fr [132.227.60.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA09973 for ; Mon, 20 May 1996 12:17:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from blaise.ibp.fr (blaise.ibp.fr [132.227.60.1]) by ibp.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with ESMTP id VAA14321 ; Mon, 20 May 1996 21:17:40 +0200 Received: from (uucp@localhost) by blaise.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with UUCP id VAA10977 ; Mon, 20 May 1996 21:18:04 +0200 Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.7.5/keltia-uucp-2.7) id UAA04975; Mon, 20 May 1996 20:41:55 +0200 (MET DST) From: Ollivier Robert Message-Id: <199605201841.UAA04975@keltia.freenix.fr> Subject: Re: Involking DDB To: dennis@etinc.com (Dennis) Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 20:41:55 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199605201438.KAA21695@etinc.com> from Dennis at "May 20, 96 10:38:25 am" X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT ctm#1983 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL16 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk It seems that Dennis said: > Is there a way to start DDB without a system crash...ie run the kernel in > some sort of monitoring mode on demand? Ctrl-Alt-Esc at the console prompt (not X) should jump you into DDB. Hitting BREAK on a serial console too (maybe enabled by a special kernel option). -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 2.2-CURRENT #2: Fri May 10 21:09:14 MET DST 1996