From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 2 10:42:23 2001 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 2 10:42:22 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23A0337B400 for ; Tue, 2 Jan 2001 10:42:22 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id f02IgLY27070; Tue, 2 Jan 2001 10:42:21 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 10:42:21 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Jason Halbert Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kernel panic Message-ID: <20010102104221.W19572@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <010f01c074eb$60fffe60$17622104@next> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <010f01c074eb$60fffe60$17622104@next>; from res02jw5@gte.net on Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 06:39:44PM -0000 Sender: bright@fw.wintelcom.net Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Jason Halbert [010102 10:39] wrote: > Hi everyone: > > Happy New Year =) > > Is there a way to have the server e-mail me when there is a kernel > panic? It seems to happen a lot and I don't know why. =\ I'm not > always in front of the monitor to catch it and read what it says. > But, I think it happens at high cpu loads that or it doesn't like > seti-at-home. That's neither here nor there. Check the handbook for ways to get a crashdump and traceback to use under the section "kernel debugging". If you want to be notified at reboot, i would just add a script to /usr/local/etc/rc.d to email you whenever the machine reboots. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message