On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 12:32:40AM +0200, ter Voorde Informatiesystemen wrote: > You are completely right. > > I was only wondering if I do not set the variable explicitly, the > default value would be 0 or 1.
Ok, that I can not find from the documentation, only that setting it to 0 most probably is a change. The default is: # uname -a OpenBSD localhost.localdomain 4.9 GENERIC.MP#47 i386 # sysctl ddb.panic ddb.panic=1 It is very easy to check, if you have an installation... / Raimo > > Kind regards, > > Frank > > On 06/22/11 17:12, Raimo Niskanen wrote: > >On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 11:45:49AM -0300, Marcos Laufer wrote: > >>I am sorry, this confused me, and i didn't quite understand. > >> > >>Just to be clear: > >> > >>ddb.panic=0 will boot instead of dropping you into a ddb? > >> > >>Or is it ddb.panic=1 the option that will make the system boot? > >Please... are we not a wee bit lazy now... man sysctl.conf: > > > >EXAMPLES > > To turn on IP forwarding, one would use the following line: > > > > net.inet.ip.forwarding=1 > > > > To cause the kernel to reboot on a panic, instead of dropping into > > the > > debugger, the following can be used: > > > > ddb.panic=0 > > > >> > >>Regards, > >> > >>David Coppa wrote: > >>>On Wed, 22 Jun 2011, ter Voorde Informatiesystemen wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>>>In /etc/sysctl.conf I see the following commented line: > >>>> > >>>>#ddb.panic=0 > >>>> > >>>>and nothing else about ddb.panic is present there. With other words, > >>>>I guess: 'ddb.panic=0' is the default boot time setting and does not > >>>>have to be set explicitly. > >>>> > >>>>I now suppose: on a kernel panic, this system will not drop into ddb > >>>>(kind-of waiting for someone to retrieve useful information about > >>>>the panic) and is most likely to reboot. Is that correct? > >>>> > >>>Exactly the opposite: > >>> > >>>$ sysctl ddb.panic > >>>ddb.panic=1 > >>> > >>>You need to uncomment that line in /etc/sysctl.conf. > >>> > >>>Cheers, > >>>David -- / Raimo Niskanen, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB
