From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 19 03:25:46 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 554D116A41C for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 03:25:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wkt@minnie.tuhs.org) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (minnie.tuhs.org [131.244.9.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0370743D45 for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 03:25:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wkt@minnie.tuhs.org) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 0BE3F70; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 13:25:39 +1000 (EST) Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 13:25:39 +1000 From: Warren Toomey To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050719032539.GA54535@minnie.tuhs.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Subject: Auto Reboot after Panic? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 03:25:46 -0000 Hi, I have recently installed FreeBSD 5.3 on a Dell Poweredge 650 server, and it has panicked twice in the past 3 weeks. Unfortunately, the box is in a server room for which I don't have a key, and access can take hours. I would like the box to dump core and reboot on a panic. I think I have set the box up to do this, but on the last panic it didn't reboot. I followed the information at http://www.bsdatwork.com/2002/03/29/system_panics_part_1/, and I have compiled a kernel with makeoptions DEBUG=-g, options KDB, options KDB_UNATTENDED. /etc/rc.conf has these lines: dumpdev="/dev/ad6s1b", dumpdir="/usr/local/var/crash". The box has 768M of RAM, ad6s1b has at least that much space, and is configured as swap. Can anybody tell me what have forgotten to do to make the box reboot on a panic? Many thanks in advance, Warren