[including -committers for political correctness] On Friday, 17 September 1999 at 11:45:36 +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > On Thu, 16 Sep 1999 13:30:30 MST, Doug wrote: >> Would not the 'panic' option in DDB be enough to handle this, or >> am I missing something? > > He wanted a to be able to panic() a machine from console without being > able to drop to DDB from console. I think this is because he believes > that DDB is a security problem. :-)
Well, I'm missing something: the beginning of this thread, so this may not be 100% relevant, but I've just had the situation. So: I believe that panicing the system is also a security problem. But sometimes people have hangs and just want to get a dump. Installing DDB is overkill for this situation; how about a key attribute that panics the system? It would probably make sense to have a sysctl or some such to enable it. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger g...@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
