8.0 on new hardware and a few errors, should I be worried?

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 03:28:48AM +0200, Dan Naumov wrote:
> Additionally, while building a whole bunch of ports on this new system
> (about 30 or so, samba, ncftp, portaudit, bash, the usual suspects), I
> noticed the following in my logs during the build process:
> 
> --------------------------------------------------
> Feb 27 21:24:01 atombsd kernel: pid 38846 (try), uid 0: exited on
> signal 10 (core dumped)
> Feb 27 22:17:49 atombsd kernel: pid 89665 (conftest), uid 0: exited on
> signal 6 (core dumped)
> --------------------------------------------------

This is intentional/normal, believe it or not.  It's by-design as part
of some compiler tests that autoconf (or the software that uses
autoconf) induces.  Thanks, GNU!  FreeBSD logs these to the console by
default; the sysctl to control this behaviour is kern.logsigexit.

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