> I disagree quite strongly. DDB provides a mechanism to allow a > sysadmin to obtain a greater amount of information from a panic > situation then he could get otherwise. Being able to obtain this > information does not run counter to running with a raised securelevel. > > If the system winds up in a state where a kernel core cannot be > generated, DDB is the only way to figure out what is going on. > securelevel is a mechanism which attempts to guarentee data security, > at least to a degree. These two items do not clash. >
Anyway, as soon as you can physically access the PC, youD loose anyway, independent of whether you can go into DDB to do things. You can reboot, boot a floppy. Yes you can do something about those things, but only to a limited extent. Nick -- ISIS/STA, T.P.270, Joint Research Centre, 21020 Ispra, Italy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
