On 11/04/13 18:26, Thomas Mueller wrote: > Question that arises is how does the system know where to send the email, and through what SMTP server, especially if panicmail_autosubmit="YES". The code assumes that your system knows how to deliver email. An out-of-the-box FreeBSD install has sendmail and can do this. If you don't enable panicmail_autosubmit then it also assumes you're reading or forwarding root's email -- which you should be doing anyway. > In the case of a kernel panic, wouldn't the system crash/freeze, and would it then be able to compose an email message? The email is generated from the crashdump when the system next boots. > I use mail/mpop and mail/msmtp rather than messing with sendmail or postfix; have multiple email accounts and inboxes. > > Now come to think of it, I don't think I ever sent an email from FreeBSD as root, only as nonroot. Don't you get "daily run output" and "security run output" emails? > Something like panicmail ought to be ported to NetBSD pkgsrc, considering that NetBSD seems so much more unstable and crash-prone than FreeBSD on my hardware. Go right ahead. It's a small shell script -- might even work fine without any changes. It's BSD licensed, of course. -- Colin Percival Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoidReceived on Tue Nov 05 2013 - 02:24:33 UTC
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