I just generated one of these mails for myself, and I think it's
perfectly reasonably worded. The subject "Segfault in Samba",
however, could be worded more neutrally. How about this:
Index: debian/panic-action
===================================================================
--- debian/panic-action (Revision 1139)
+++ debian/panic-action (Arbeitskopie)
@@ -18,11 +18,12 @@
# Generic header for our email
echo "The Samba 'panic action' script, $0,"
- echo "was called for pid $1 ($BINARYNAME)."
+ echo "was called for PID $1 ($BINARYNAME)."
echo
+ echo "This means there was a problem with the program, such as a
segfault."
+
if [ -z "$BINARYNAME" ]; then
- echo "This means there was a problem with the program, such as
a segfault."
echo "However, the executable could not be found for process
$1."
echo "It may have died unexpectedly, or you may not have
permission to"
echo "debug the process."
@@ -31,7 +32,6 @@
# No debugger
if [ ! -x /usr/bin/gdb ]; then
- echo "This means there was a problem with the program, such as
a segfault."
echo "However, gdb was not found on your system, so the error
could not be"
echo "debugged. Please install the gdb package so that
debugging information is"
echo "available the next time such a problem occurs."
@@ -48,4 +48,4 @@
echo "http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting or the reportbug(1) manpage."
echo
gdb -x /etc/samba/gdbcommands -batch "$BINARYNAME" "$1"
-) | mail -s "Segfault in Samba" root
+) | mail -s "Problem in Samba" root
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