Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 23:31:37 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com> Cc: Thomas Zander <thomas.e.zander@googlemail.com>, freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Interpreting MCA error output Message-ID: <59140016-4530-4343-9C30-CA9B16E9EEBD@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20111018113302.GA14363@icarus.home.lan> References: <CAFU734y3WsVFTpnGoGfbPH4vVBnoz8f=qGvYS4c%2BLya8PFQP_A@mail.gmail.com> <20111001102327.GA37434@icarus.home.lan> <CAFU734xHMugfW%2BZcO93OPqUEhJshYn-k%2B%2B3aGmcDVvGZVQ=s%2BQ@mail.gmail.com> <20111018071941.GA9482@icarus.home.lan> <087BDDD7-0B16-4415-8D98-11FA617E03F5@gsoft.com.au> <20111018113302.GA14363@icarus.home.lan>
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On 18/10/2011, at 22:03, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >> It would be _super_ neat if the mcelog port installed a devd rule = which emailed root@ with the human readable version of an MCA exception = :) >>=20 >> I suspect this wouldn't be too difficult to do for a JKH. >=20 > Why? Most MCEs on FreeBSD will panic the machine. I would need to go > through the MCA code to see what all gets handled elegantly, but I > imagine there isn't much. If you see an MCA in your log file it didn't panic your machine, I think = they're not uncommon. > Also, isn't devd for device removal/insertions? This would be using > devd for something it isn't intended for. I guess I have "moral > objections" to it. What you're really wanting is Solaris's fmd(1m) > daemon, which I believe is also tied heavily into Solaris's smf(5) > architecture. I always thought devd was a fairly general event notification thing. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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