On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 15:12:30 +0200 ter Voorde Informatiesystemen <i...@tv-is.nl> wrote:
> Hi there, > > At first, I would like to apologize for the possibility that this > e-mail message might fatigue you, but I just want to be sure. > > I would like to know if my machine automatically reboots at a kernel > panic (if it's not failing too much because of malfunctioning > hardware, etc., ofcourse) by default, or if it will not. > > The machine is an i386 running OpenBSD 4.9 GENERIC.MP#794 and had a > default cd install with no additional manual compile options set. It > only has two users and sshd configured, so I didn't touch anything > else. Pretty default. > > In /etc/sysctl.conf I see the following commented line: > > #ddb.panic=0 > > and nothing else about ddb.panic is present there. With other words, > I guess: 'ddb.panic=0' is the default boot time setting and does not > have to be set explicitly. you have wrong guess, go do # sysctl ddb.panic > I now suppose: on a kernel panic, this system will not drop into ddb > (kind-of waiting for someone to retrieve useful information about the > panic) and is most likely to reboot. Is that correct? wrong. by default it _WILL_ drop into ddb > > Kind regards, > > Frank ter Voorde
