On 18/10/2011, at 22:03, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >> It would be _super_ neat if the mcelog port installed a devd rule which >> emailed root@ with the human readable version of an MCA exception :) >> >> I suspect this wouldn't be too difficult to do for a JKH. > > Why? Most MCEs on FreeBSD will panic the machine. I would need to go > through the MCA code to see what all gets handled elegantly, but I > imagine there isn't much.
If you see an MCA in your log file it didn't panic your machine, I think they're not uncommon. > Also, isn't devd for device removal/insertions? This would be using > devd for something it isn't intended for. I guess I have "moral > objections" to it. What you're really wanting is Solaris's fmd(1m) > daemon, which I believe is also tied heavily into Solaris's smf(5) > architecture. I always thought devd was a fairly general event notification thing. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
