From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 28 23: 3: 7 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67AFE37B401 for ; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 23:03:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.de [213.165.65.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0398143FD7 for ; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 23:03:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kitsune@gmx.co.uk) Received: (qmail 6250 invoked by uid 0); 1 Mar 2003 07:03:02 -0000 Received: from ip68-109-49-234.lu.dl.cox.net (HELO fortytwo) (68.109.49.234) by mail.gmx.net (mp010-rz3) with SMTP; 1 Mar 2003 07:03:02 -0000 Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 20:05:25 -0600 From: kitsune To: "nate" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kernel panic question Message-Id: <20030228200525.2e9662f5.kitsune@gmx.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <49136.10.10.10.7.1046499075.squirrel@webmail.linuxpowered.net> References: <20030228160755.4e34ba4b.kitbsdlists@HotPOP.com> <20030301044805.GE41962@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20030228180031.36d416ab.kitbsdlists@HotPOP.com> <20030301051231.GG41962@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20030228190303.1d5490e4.kitbsdlists@HotPOP.com> <49136.10.10.10.7.1046499075.squirrel@webmail.linuxpowered.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.3 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.7) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 28 Feb 2003 22:11:15 -0800 (PST) "nate" wrote: > kitsune said: > > > Any ways since ye wanted proof, why I would care to fake it I do not know, > > I am inserting the out put from dmesg... and after looking into kernel > > dumps, afaik that would be useless to me since from what little info I > > found has told me there is a nice chance I won't understant it. > > I reccomend setting up a serial console. you'll need a null modem > cable and another system to connect the console to. > > capturing kernel panics via log files is tricky, I've never been able > to on linux or free/open bsd, maybe my panics have just been too severe. > on the flip side the kernel panics i've had on solaris managed to get > logged to the syslog server :) Cool, yeah, planning on looking into that. :) Just need to find a program for that now, any suggestions? BTW what should I look for once I get it working? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message