From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 23 16:40:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A01715404 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 16:40:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (ident=ben) by scientia.demon.co.uk with local (Exim 2.12 #4) id 10PZ01-0008HW-00; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 21:46:13 +0000 (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 21:46:13 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst To: Brian Adkins Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Enabling dumping Message-ID: <19990323214613.B31791@scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <4.1.19990323142119.00ae9f10@mailbox.iwaynet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990323142119.00ae9f10@mailbox.iwaynet.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Brian Adkins wrote: > Is there any way of testing this ie. simulate a panic? Build a kernel with "options DDB", log in on the console, press CTRL-ALT-ESC, type "panic" at the ddb prompt. Might be a good idea to do that in single user mode after doing "sync" or something to reduce the chance of losing data. There may be other ways. -- Ben Smithurst ben@scientia.demon.co.uk send a blank message to ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk for PGP key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message