From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 2 12:26:53 2001 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 2 12:26:51 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtppop2pub.verizon.net (smtppop2pub.gte.net [206.46.170.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21CD137B400 for ; Tue, 2 Jan 2001 12:26:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from next (crtntx1-ar3-098-023.dsl.gtei.net [4.33.98.23]) by smtppop2pub.verizon.net with SMTP ; id OAA74688206 Tue, 2 Jan 2001 14:26:02 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <011f01c074fa$5a6f8d40$17622104@next> From: "Jason Halbert" To: "Alfred Perlstein" Cc: References: <010f01c074eb$60fffe60$17622104@next> <20010102104221.W19572@fw.wintelcom.net> Subject: Re: kernel panic Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 20:26:56 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Previously on FreeBSD Questions "Alfred Perlstein" wrote: > * 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." Hmm.. okay I could do that. Not sure how to write the script though. Is there a way to find out why the machine re-booted? Like if it was a kernel panic or someone actually did a "shutdown" ? --- Jason jason@jason-n3xt.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message