Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 13:41:09 -0500 From: Tom Embt <tom@embt.com> To: Mark Newton <newton@internode.com.au> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: why is my current so .... stable? Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.20000113134109.01660298@mail.embt.com> In-Reply-To: <20000113105214.D1094@internode.com.au> References: <3.0.3.32.20000112082944.01636938@mail.embt.com> <Pine.BSF.4.20.0001120706140.1479-100000@lcm97.cvzoom.net> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10001121422430.97990-100000@pauling.research .devcon.net> <3.0.3.32.20000112082944.01636938@mail.embt.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
At 10:52 01/13/2000 +1030, Mark Newton wrote: >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 > Hmm, well the menu thing would surely suck, but we wouldn't really need that info anyway. Perhaps if the startup/shutdown info was just written to /var/log/<something> and people could optionally enable (as in off by default) something in /etc/rc.conf to actually send the info back to a master server on a regular basis. Even if the info isn't sent to the master it could be parsed locally if so desired. Again, just ideas.. Tom Embt tom@embt.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?3.0.3.32.20000113134109.01660298>