From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 16 16:43:47 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84BB7106564A for ; Wed, 16 May 2012 16:43:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fernando.apesteguia@gmail.com) Received: from mail-lpp01m010-f54.google.com (mail-lpp01m010-f54.google.com [209.85.215.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 024C68FC08 for ; Wed, 16 May 2012 16:43:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: by laai10 with SMTP id i10so924628laa.13 for ; Wed, 16 May 2012 09:43:45 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=Vqvrm3vCnolL4WJZQLr+EPpQBI+wcSmGuHEikqn4ayo=; b=F3HrR5DQrak7PNLKvWhwIxIJjdKN4hIudnY5Z6HzE/K8vZMfiCaW1SFjYIWBHf2NhB JLls46MtneShaL3CAW4NQpoax1l7d/BFzbzwqVgChOvdHWGQt9piZvAoA/zwldyaRs1l DrbSG50G8X6fbq9vDpOjMkhiBTO63DD6ZMjwvSXdhjSYDI6GVQXQIQWE5kQTfh+dvY75 9P1PajJ+hjHi/Ev6mJqg5N5UGSGgs31rKQD2GnkeeW1uYQwbZwBiV+v0EqdONny/WYXZ sgAKgWFCFytnOZbb0R10L+H7z69lPRnOIfBOzR1QUUJrW8PThd/QcxfoVK/NHYNM6bC6 q1jg== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.112.99.71 with SMTP id eo7mr1633981lbb.84.1337186625599; Wed, 16 May 2012 09:43:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.152.24.131 with HTTP; Wed, 16 May 2012 09:43:45 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20120516003020.82068pr8h9dyqjfw@webmail.teithe.gr> References: <20120516003020.82068pr8h9dyqjfw@webmail.teithe.gr> Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 18:43:45 +0200 Message-ID: From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fernando_Apestegu=EDa?= To: tzabal@it.teithe.gr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GSoC Project: Automated Kernel Crash Reporting System - Discussion X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 16:43:47 -0000 On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 11:30 PM, 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"