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Cc: Ian Lepore <freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org>, stable@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: Reducing the need to compile a custom kernel
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on 11/02/2012 01:30 Jeremy Chadwick said the following:
> This won't work for us.  This requires manual intervention.  When we
> have a machine that panic's, we want it sitting at a ddb> prompt
> indefinitely until an admin gets to it to find out what happened.  There
> may be some way to automatically run ddb commands when ddb is induced,
> but I haven't dug into it yet.

Yep.   See ddb(8).

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Andriy Gapon