From owner-cvs-all Mon Dec 10 3: 1: 8 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from newsguy.com (smtp.newsguy.com [209.155.56.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1A4837B417; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 03:01:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from newsguy.com (ppp225-bsace7003.telebrasilia.net.br [200.181.82.225]) by newsguy.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id DAA50557; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 03:00:03 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3C149761.AAB205B@newsguy.com> Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 09:07:13 -0200 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,pt,en-GB,en-US,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: obrien@FreeBSD.org, "Daniel C. Sobral" , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/common panic.c References: <54466.1007977919@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > On Sat, 08 Dec 2001 19:13:21 PST, "David O'Brien" wrote: > > > > Modified files: > > > sys/boot/common panic.c > > > Log: > > > Waits for a keypress before rebooting on panic. > > > > This sounds scary for unattended machines. Perhaps this should be > > wrapped with DDB_UNATTENDED. > > As was pointed out when dcs first made this change, the panic in > question happens so early that an automatic reboot isn't going to > achieve anything. Not entirely true. That is the case of unattended machines, but it is conceivable to try a loader/loader.conf on a remote machine through PXE boot and have it go wrong. In that case, the key press effectively prevents one from going back to a known working version of these files. I was told the fix was already in, though. Perhaps I should have checked... -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@the.secret.bsdconspiracy.net wow regex humor... I'm a geek To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message