On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 08:39:11PM +1030, Brett Lymn wrote:
> If I understood Darren correctly, that is not what he wants.  When he
> is at home he wants the machine to drop to ddb so he can look at what
> went wrong _but_ when he is half a planet away this is inconvenient so
> he wants the machine to just reboot... without resorting to two
> different kernels and booting between them.

And that is, as has been pointed out, exactly what is available by
the sysctl ddb.* settings.

My bet would be Darren simply did not knew those (or is using an ancient
version of NetBSD ;-})

Martin