Hello Community,
I have the project "Automated Kernel Crash Reporting System" for this
GSoC and I would like to discuss my plans about it before starting the
coding on May 21.
I have created a page in the FreeBSD Wiki
(http://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2012/AutomatedKernelCrashReportingSystem)
where I describe in details the architecture of the system.
Here are some points that I would like to be discussed:
* The implementation of the kcrashreporter is planned to be done in
two shell scripts. The first shell script is a rc.d script and the
second is the actual program. I choose to code it in shell because
kcrashreporter invokes the kgdb to collect the necessary debugging
information. I think that using the shell instead of traditional
programming language for this kind of job is more straightforward and
natural. Do you have a different opinion?
* Can you recommend a secure way of sending a report from a FreeBSD
system to the Central Collector machine?
* Which data do you want kcrashreporter to collect? At the moment I
have considered the panic message, the backtrace, the version level of
the release, the hardware platform (uname -vm) and the configuration
file of the panicked kernel (config -x `sysctl -n kern.bootfile`).
* Do you propose a different Web Server than the Apache HTTP Server?
For example, on my initial planning I had included MySQL as the
selected DBMS and after some discussions I changed to PostgreSQL.
Any comment regarding the project is more than welcome.
Thank you,
Tzanetos
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