On Tuesday, 19 July 2005 at 13:25:39 +1000, Warren Toomey wrote: > Hi, I have recently installed FreeBSD 5.3 on a Dell Poweredge 650 server, > and it has panicked twice in the past 3 weeks. Unfortunately, the box is > in a server room for which I don't have a key, and access can take hours. > > I would like the box to dump core and reboot on a panic. I think I have set > the box up to do this, but on the last panic it didn't reboot. I followed the > information at http://www.bsdatwork.com/2002/03/29/system_panics_part_1/, > and I have compiled a kernel with makeoptions DEBUG=-g, options KDB, > options KDB_UNATTENDED. > > /etc/rc.conf has these lines: dumpdev="/dev/ad6s1b", > dumpdir="/usr/local/var/crash". The box has 768M of RAM, ad6s1b has > at least that much space, and is configured as swap. > > Can anybody tell me what have forgotten to do to make the box reboot on > a panic? Many thanks in advance,
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