Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 10:24:04 +1000 From: Warren Toomey <wkt@tuhs.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Auto Reboot on Panic? Message-ID: <20050719002404.GA39681@minnie.tuhs.org>
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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 I have forgotten to do to make the box reboot on a panic? Many thanks in advance, Warren
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