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From: Gary Jennejohn <gary.jennejohn@freenet.de>
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Cc: FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>,
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Subject: Re: Automated kernel crash reporting system
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On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 08:06:50 -0500
jhell <jhell@DataIX.net> wrote:

> 
> On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 07:09, dan.naumov@ wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > I noticed the following on the FreeBSD website:
> > http://www.freebsd.org/projects/ideas/ideas.html#p-autoreport Has
> > there been any progress/work done on the automated kernel crash
> > reporting system? The current ways of enabling and gathering the
> > information required by developers for investigating panics and
> > similar issues are unintuitive and user-hostile to say the least and
> > anything to automate the process would be a very welcome addition.
> >
> >
> > - Sincerely,
> > Dan Naumov
> >
> 
> Hi Dan,
> 
> I am assuming that the output of crashinfo_enable="YES" is not what you 
> are talking about is it ? are you aware of it ?
> 
> The info contained in the crashinfo.txt.N is pretty informative for 
> developers, maybe your talking about another way of submitting it ?
> 

This feature is mentioned as a mechanism which could be used as part of
the automatic reporting functionality.  So it's not quite the same thing.

---
Gary Jennejohn