Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:13:15 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Warren Toomey <wkt@tuhs.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Auto Reboot after Panic? Message-ID: <20050720004314.GP56954@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20050719032539.GA54535@minnie.tuhs.org> References: <20050719032539.GA54535@minnie.tuhs.org>
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--+W7ryvxEk4RRyt+P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday, 19 July 2005 at 13:25:39 +1000, Warren Toomey wrote: > 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, Where does it hang? Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html The virus contained in this message was detected, clubbed to death and distributed throughout the Internet as vaccine by LEMIS anti-virus. For further details see http://www.lemis.com/grog/lemis-virus.html Finger grog@FreeBSD.org for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --+W7ryvxEk4RRyt+P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFC3Z4iIubykFB6QiMRAoP8AKCaZM9Ml+4CXEAO0obkYau/8xFgdACfUz/q 67qq00evg+QEPsh7rkbPz2U= =pCf5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --+W7ryvxEk4RRyt+P--
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