WANTED: defaults for 'panic action' for various systems
John E. Malmberg
wb8tyw at qsl.net
Sun Jul 28 07:24:01 GMT 2002
Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> I've added support to Samba so that it's stderr is always redirected to
> it's logfile.
>
> I'm hoping that this will allow us to create a default for 'panic
> action' that can get user's the debugging information they need when
> smbd crashes. In particular, it could give us vital clues in some of
> the unreproducable crashes we get from time to time.
> So, the challange is out: Provide a patch that implements a configure
> test to find the appropriate debugger, invokes it in a secure way and
> outputs it's work to stderr. From there it will end up in the currently
> open logfile.
Please provide an option to simply not intercept the signals that cause
a panic.
The SAMBA signal handler is interfering with platforms like OpenVMS that
have a built in "panic action" handler.
When you intercept a fatal signal, instead of getting a stack dump like
you want to provide, I get a stack dump telling me that that SAMBA
deliberately exited from the signal handler, and I do not get much in
the way of a clue as to why the signal handler was invoked.
Since I can not run the configure scripts, it makes it easier for me if
the default action is to assume that the operating system has a "panic
action" handler that will produce a traceback dump.
-John
wb8tyw at qsl.network
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