On Saturday 28 April 2007 04:33, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > A thought: how hard would it be to add some method of forcing a > system crash, that would dump core, from the command line? Something > that, by default, would be disabled, but for remote debugging > purposes, one could enable in the kernel and do a 'sysctl > kernel.force_core_crash=1' to have it do it? I imagine that having a > core to analyze would allow providing more information then nothing > at all, no?
I think you can do this.. sysctl debug.kdb.panic=1 Alas that appears to be a -current thing. 6.x has debug.kdb.enter though. -- 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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