Re: panic() the system from the console (was: Re: kern/13721: There is no way to force system panic from console)

1999-09-19 Thread Kazutaka YOKOTA
He wanted a to be able to panic() a machine from console without being able to drop to DDB from console. I think this is because he believes that DDB is a security problem. :-) Well, I'm missing something: the beginning of this thread, so this may not be 100% relevant, but I've just had the

Re: panic() the system from the console (was: Re: kern/13721: There is no way to force system panic from console)

1999-09-19 Thread Greg Lehey
On Sunday, 19 September 1999 at 18:29:34 +0900, Kazutaka YOKOTA wrote: He wanted a to be able to panic() a machine from console without being able to drop to DDB from console. I think this is because he believes that DDB is a security problem. :-) Well, I'm missing something: the beginning

Sv: panic() the system from the console (was: Re: kern/13721: There is no way to force system panic from console)

1999-09-19 Thread Leif Neland
That was exactly the suggestion the original poster made in his PR. He also believed that assiging the PANIC function to a key is no worse than having the DDB function key. I think that's a valid statement. Sure, you can return from ddb, whereas you can't from panic, but any abuse

Re: Sv: panic() the system from the console (was: Re: kern/13721: There is no way to force system panic from console)

1999-09-19 Thread Greg Lehey
On Monday, 20 September 1999 at 2:06:18 +0200, Leif Neland wrote: That was exactly the suggestion the original poster made in his PR. He also believed that assiging the PANIC function to a key is no worse than having the DDB function key. I think that's a valid statement. Sure, you can

Re: panic() the system from the console (was: Re: kern/13721: There is no way to force system panic from console)

1999-09-18 Thread Greg Lehey
[including -committers for political correctness] On Friday, 17 September 1999 at 11:45:36 +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: On Thu, 16 Sep 1999 13:30:30 MST, Doug wrote: Would not the 'panic' option in DDB be enough to handle this, or am I missing something? He wanted a to be able to

Re: panic() the system from the console (was: Re: kern/13721: There is no way to force system panic from console)

1999-09-18 Thread Greg Lehey
[including -committers for political correctness] On Friday, 17 September 1999 at 11:45:36 +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: On Thu, 16 Sep 1999 13:30:30 MST, Doug wrote: Would not the 'panic' option in DDB be enough to handle this, or am I missing something? He wanted a to be able to panic()

Re: panic() the system from the console (was: Re: kern/13721: There is no way to force system panic from console)

1999-09-17 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999 13:30:30 MST, Doug wrote: Would not the 'panic' option in DDB be enough to handle this, or am I missing something? He wanted a to be able to panic() a machine from console without being able to drop to DDB from console. I think this is because he believes that DDB

Re: panic() the system from the console (was: Re: kern/13721: There is no way to force system panic from console)

1999-09-17 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999 13:30:30 MST, Doug wrote: Would not the 'panic' option in DDB be enough to handle this, or am I missing something? He wanted a to be able to panic() a machine from console without being able to drop to DDB from console. I think this is because he believes that DDB

panic() the system from the console (was: Re: kern/13721: There is no way to force system panic from console)

1999-09-16 Thread Kazutaka YOKOTA
Number: 13721 Category: kern Synopsis: There is no way to force system panic from console [...] Release:FreeBSD 3.3-RC Organization: Server Environment: Description: Under some rare circumstances there is a real need to reboot system via kernel 's panic from the

panic() the system from the console (was: Re: kern/13721: There is no way to force system panic from console)

1999-09-16 Thread Kazutaka YOKOTA
Number: 13721 Category: kern Synopsis: There is no way to force system panic from console [...] Release:FreeBSD 3.3-RC Organization: Server Environment: Description: Under some rare circumstances there is a real need to reboot system via kernel 's panic from the system

Re: panic() the system from the console (was: Re: kern/13721: There is no way to force system panic from console)

1999-09-16 Thread Warner Losh
In message 199909160948.saa02...@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp Kazutaka YOKOTA writes: : case _PANIC_KEY_ : #if !defined(SC_DISABLE_REBOOT) !defined(SC_DISABLE_PANIC) : if (securelevel = 0) : panic(); : #endif : break; : : Any opinions?

Re: panic() the system from the console (was: Re: kern/13721: There is no way to force system panic from console)

1999-09-16 Thread Doug
As the originator suggested in his subsequent posting to the PR database, we can defined panic key and handle it in syscons as follows: Would not the 'panic' option in DDB be enough to handle this, or am I missing something? I'm not opposed to adding a panic() key combo, just wondering