Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:50:44 +0200 (CEST) From: Alexander Best <alexbestms@math.uni-muenster.de> To: Mikolaj Golub <to.my.trociny@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: crashtar Message-ID: <permail-200910132050441e86ffa800003ff2-a_best01@message-id.uni-muenster.de> In-Reply-To: <86d44vqs9l.fsf@kopusha.onet>
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Mikolaj Golub schrieb am 2009-10-10: > On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 12:34:05 +0200 (CEST) Alexander Best wrote: > AB> thanks. this is a cool script and very useful indeed. only thing > you might > AB> want to do is check for root privileges at the beginning to > avoid nasty error > AB> messages like. > AB> awk: can't open file /var/crash/info.0 > AB> source line number 12 > In some cases you might not need root privileges. E.g. on some > servers I don't > have root but SA gives me read access to crashdumps. In this case if > the > script had a check for root privileges I would not be able to use it. > Actually as for me the message looks informative enough, it says that > we have > some problems with accessing crash dump files, so permissions should > be > checked. alright then. :) again: great script. would be great to have this in the ports dir in the near future. cheers. alex
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