Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:54:08 -0600 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-rc@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org, Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>, bug-followup@freebsd.org Subject: Re: conf/119995: [patch] New rc.d script ddb to load ddb scripts from /etc/ddb.conf Message-ID: <20080127005408.GE52539@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> In-Reply-To: <479BC6CE.1080601@FreeBSD.org> References: <200801260814.m0Q8EDeT053102@freefall.freebsd.org> <479B5D72.2010706@FreeBSD.org> <20080126175535.GA52539@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> <20080126223558.J69773@fledge.watson.org> <479BC6CE.1080601@FreeBSD.org>
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--c3bfwLpm8qysLVxt Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 03:48:30PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote: > Robert Watson wrote: > >=20 > > On Sat, 26 Jan 2008, Brooks Davis wrote: > >=20 > >> IMO we want this in the base and ideally this script or the crash dump > >> script would grow the option to mail text dumps somewhere > >> automatically (off by default of course). This should be as tightly > >> integrated as we can reasonably make it. > >=20 > > I think I'd like to see something along these lines in the base, as > > offering tools to help autonatically configure DDB scripting isn't all > > that different from offering tools to configure firewalls, run user > > scripts, etc. >=20 > I see a fairly significant difference, namely that the other things > you mentioned are things that we expect all of our users to be able to > and/or want to do. No one wants to debug crash dumps. :) I think you've misunderstood what we're suggesting. What all our users want is to never run into any bugs and failing that to have a fix magically appear the moment they do hit one. :) I think this another step toward more reliably providing developers the information they need to discover and fix bugs that users hit. I'd venture to say that 80-90% of panic reports we receive are useless because we don't have what we need to do anything with them and this is a step toward resolving that. I'd really like to see 8.0 ship with textdumps on by default. -- Brooks --c3bfwLpm8qysLVxt Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFHm9YvXY6L6fI4GtQRAhE1AKCLw4WVAHcXEkIGsZ2Gbim/glj9lwCgzq1C HC2LuHW332Ulum9MHDzUiKU= =+mjp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --c3bfwLpm8qysLVxt--
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