Hi all, I just uploaded a prototype of an SMF service that can be used instead of the existing svc:/system/dumpadm:default service.
More at http://blogs.sun.com/timf/entry/friendly_dumpadm_0_1 It does exactly the same as the original service, but also, after having run savecore(1M), if a dump was saved, it creates a quick summary of the crash, and sleeps, waiting for a user to login to X. Once that user logs in, it displays the crash summary, and asks the user if they want that summary mailed to someone helpful. I wrote it because I'd come across several people, unfamiliar with OpenSolaris were complaining that their machines had spontaneously rebooted - in fact their machines had panicked, but they didn't know it. After I had pointed them at mdb & explained a bit about crash dumps, I thought it might be nice if the system was able to give them a hand, and tell them what had happened: so this could be one way of doing that. Thoughts/comments welcome ? cheers, tim -- Tim Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc, Solaris Engineering Ops http://blogs.sun.com/timf _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
