Andrew Doran wrote:
I changed it so that the debugger is no longer automatically entered if the system panics. Dropping to the debugger is especially inappropriate if the victim is on call or using X at the time. It will just dump and reboot now. To enter the debugger automatically set ddb.onpanic=1 in /etc/sysctl.conf. There's some scope for improvement here, for example waiting a few seconds and prompting before reboot..
What do you mean by this? Have you just changed the default of ddb.onpanic to 0? I mean, it's not like the system necessarily entered ddb before either. If someone manage systems remote, I would hope they had already set ddb.onpanic appropriately before this, or otherwise they didn't know what they were doing anyway, and changing this default will not make them suddenly become competent.
Johnny
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