From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jan 12 16:23:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from gizmo.internode.com.au (gizmo.internode.com.au [192.83.231.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE16415035 for ; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 16:23:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from newton@gizmo.internode.com.au) Received: (from newton@localhost) by gizmo.internode.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA01462; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 10:52:14 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from newton) Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 10:52:14 +1030 From: Mark Newton To: Tom Embt Cc: Christian Carstensen , Donn Miller , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: why is my current so .... stable? Message-ID: <20000113105214.D1094@internode.com.au> References: <3.0.3.32.20000112082944.01636938@mail.embt.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre3i In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.20000112082944.01636938@mail.embt.com> X-PGP-Key: http://www.on.net/~newton/pgpkey.txt Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 08:29:44AM -0500, Tom Embt wrote: > >This would be great, but I wonder from what source we could take reliable > >data about -current's stability. > > How 'bout some sort of client program that is run via the rc.d and > rc.shutdown scripts? One of the more annoying aspects of IRIX in its default config is that whenever you do a halt or reboot it'd pop up a menu to ask why. That information, together with crash dump info and other data about system failures, can be funnelled into a mail filter which records historical reliability data; That data can (optionally) be sent back to SGI too. We could provide something like this, but (a) if it's on by default it'll suck rocks, and (b) if it's off by default nobody will bother turning it on. Hey ho! - mark -- Mark Newton Email: newton@internode.com.au (W) Network Engineer Email: newton@atdot.dotat.org (H) Internode Systems Pty Ltd Desk: +61-8-82232999 "Network Man" - Anagram of "Mark Newton" Mobile: +61-416-202-223 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message