Automated submission of kernel panic reports

Colin Percival cperciva at freebsd.org
Tue Oct 29 23:14:21 UTC 2013


On 10/29/13 04:12, Ivan Voras wrote:
> On 29/10/2013 11:32, Colin Percival wrote:
>> If ${panicmail_autosubmit} is set to YES, this information is encrypted
>> and submitted via email.  The email which is sent looks like this: 
>> http://pastebin.com/AaCuxvDg
> 
> I haven't tried it, but there's NetPGP (http://www.netpgp.com/) which can
> be used to generate standard PGP-formatted messages instead of using a
> custom format. What do you think about it?

If you need the full functionality of PGP, it looks great.  But for this
particular purpose I'd prefer to have 71 lines rather than 40,000 lines.

The same logic is why freebsd-update and portsnap use 'openssl rsautl'
directly instead of gpg/netpgp/etc.

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Colin Percival
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