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Preparing for the Worst in FreeBSD

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the when-it-rains-it-pours dept.

LiquidPC writes "In Part I of this series, Michael Lucas, from ONLamp.com, goes over preparing your FreeBSD computer for the worst in case of a system panic."

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  1. Nice article, but... by vrmlguy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm a Sun admin by day, and Sun has always (since at least SunOS 4.1, when I started) made provisions to do this. I'll admit that I'm rarely cutting-edge with my Linux systems, so I haven't had any panics that I wanted to track down, so I don't know if Linux does this sort of stuff for you. I'm shocked that OpenBSD doesn't.

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    Nothing for 6-digit uids?
  2. 12 month uptime + crash = hardware failure by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is most likely a hardware failure, possibly memory. Try memtest86 before you go on a kernel debugging hunt... basically, if your server has worked great for 12 months and then craps like this it probably ain't software.