Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 11:31:06 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Cc: Doug <Doug@gorean.org>, FreeBSD-committers@FreeBSD.org, Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>, hackers@FreeBSD.org, sos@FreeBSD.org, bde@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: panic() the system from the console (was: Re: kern/13721: There is no way to force system panic from console) Message-ID: <19990919113105.X55065@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <73296.937561536@axl.noc.iafrica.com>; from Sheldon Hearn on Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 11:45:36AM %2B0200 References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909161329200.26117-100000@dt014nb6.san.rr.com> <73296.937561536@axl.noc.iafrica.com>
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[including -committers for political correctness] On Friday, 17 September 1999 at 11:45:36 +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > On Thu, 16 Sep 1999 13:30:30 MST, Doug wrote: >> Would not the 'panic' option in DDB be enough to handle this, or >> am I missing something? > > He wanted a to be able to panic() a machine from console without being > able to drop to DDB from console. I think this is because he believes > that DDB is a security problem. :-) Well, I'm missing something: the beginning of this thread, so this may not be 100% relevant, but I've just had the situation. So: I believe that panicing the system is also a security problem. But sometimes people have hangs and just want to get a dump. Installing DDB is overkill for this situation; how about a key attribute that panics the system? It would probably make sense to have a sysctl or some such to enable it. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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