From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 11 21:58:29 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA24453 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 11 Nov 1996 21:58:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from capella.grayphics.com (root@capella.grayphics.com [207.71.216.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA24446 for ; Mon, 11 Nov 1996 21:58:27 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nick@localhost) by capella.grayphics.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id VAA12422; Mon, 11 Nov 1996 21:58:27 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 21:58:27 -0800 (PST) From: Nick Esborn To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Making kernel panics more noticable In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 11 Nov 1996, Doug White wrote: > The system should auto-restart unless the system really died. In any case > I believe the pertinent info is logged before the system is rebooted. I > could be wrong. It does reboot, and while that certainly does help keep the system running, it makes it very difficult to isolate the causes of these problems. I find no evidence of the cause of the problem. /var/log/messages just has logins and all of a sudden the boot-up info. No reason for the reboot is logged. :( Nick Grayphics http://www.grayphics.com/