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Date:      Sun, 12 Jul 2009 12:31:02 +0100
From:      Lawrence Stewart <lstewart@freebsd.org>
To:        Stefan Bethke <stb@lassitu.de>
Cc:        FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Automatic crashdumps, etc.
Message-ID:  <4A59C976.1010307@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <231E941D-4656-4D88-BAA9-29361A3C2B51@lassitu.de>
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Stefan Bethke wrote:
> Am 12.07.2009 um 09:16 schrieb Lawrence Stewart:
> 
>> You can set debug.debugger_on_panic=0 in /etc/sysctl.conf which will 
>> make the system automatically dump core and reset instead of sitting 
>> at the ddb prompt.
> 
> I was under the impression that adding ddb_enable="YES" to rc.conf would 
> run a DDB script that records some information, creates a dump, and then 
> resets.  However, whenever I've had a panic, I was presented with just 
> the ddb prompt.  Is something else needed?

Not sure about the rc.conf option. Doing what I said will get you a 
core.txt.X, info.X and vmcore.X file in /var/crash automatically if the 
system panics, so you shouldn't need any more than that right?

Cheers,
Lawrence



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