conf/119995: [patch] New rc.d script ddb to load ddb scripts from /etc/ddb.conf

[Doug Barton]

The following reply was made to PR conf/119995; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Doug Barton <dougb at FreeBSD.org>
To: Robert Watson <rwatson at FreeBSD.org>
Cc: Brooks Davis <brooks at freebsd.org>, freebsd-bugs at freebsd.org, 
 freebsd-rc at freebsd.org, bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: conf/119995: [patch] New rc.d script ddb to load ddb scripts
 from /etc/ddb.conf
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 15:48:30 -0800

 Robert Watson wrote:
 > 
 > On Sat, 26 Jan 2008, Brooks Davis wrote:
 > 
 >> IMO we want this in the base and ideally this script or the crash dump
 >> script would grow the option to mail text dumps somewhere
 >> automatically (off by default of course).  This should be as tightly
 >> integrated as we can reasonably make it.
 > 
 > I think I'd like to see something along these lines in the base, as
 > offering tools to help autonatically configure DDB scripting isn't all
 > that different from offering tools to configure firewalls, run user
 > scripts, etc.
 
 I see a fairly significant difference, namely that the other things
 you mentioned are things that we expect all of our users to be able to
 and/or want to do. No one wants to debug crash dumps. :)
 
 But seriously folks, I said I have no objection if this goes in, I
 just think we're heading in a dangerous direction when we start
 throwing everything in that _could_ go in. I want to be sure that we
 have a compelling reason that it _should_ go in first. If you think we
 have one, go for it.
 
 FWIW I think Robert's on the right track in terms of making the
 functionality more flexible. No need to include me on the followup
 discussions though, I'll watch this one on the list.
 
 Doug
 
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