force panic of remote server ... possible?

[Gavin Atkinson]

On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 08:55 -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> For the server that I'm fighting with right now, where Dmitry pointed out 
> that it looks like a deadlock issue ... I have dumpdev/savecore enabled, 
> is there some way of forcing it to panic when I know I actually have the 
> deadlock, so that it will dump a core?

You cen enter the debugger by setting the (badly names) debug.kdb.enter
sysctl to 1, although I can't guarantee that'll trigger a dump and
reboot.  Do you have a serial console?

Gavin