Hello, beautiful people! How I have missed you. A question for your enormous brains. Suppose that the kernel panics. Further suppose that I do NOT want it to dump core. Can I set up the system to do this? Can I set up the system to perform any arbitrary commands when the kernel panics? If so, how?
The motivation behind all this: I'm trying to figure out how to get Linux on satellites. One of the barriers is paperwork: the gub'mint says "You must do X, Y, and Z". One of those requirements is that all system startups, shutdowns, and aborts keep the system in a secure state. Secure aborts is the one I'm having trouble proving--I think that dumping core is a problem, because it preserves possibly sensitive information (internal state at the time of panic) in a place that isn't supposed to hold it (namely, wherever the core is dumped, which appears to be in the swap space.) If I'm wildly off-base, please advise. Thanks! --nicole -- http://ellipticcurve.livejournal.com _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech