crashing fresbsd 5.1-current?

[Matthew Seaman]

On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 06:39:27AM -0600, Aaron Wohl wrote:
> How do I crash freebsd? I changed the dump* stuff in /etc/rc.conf.  I
> want to make sure it works.  I looked at man shutdown and man poweroff
> but I dont see a crash option.  There should be some option to a system
> call you need to be root to do that internaly does panic("test crash") ?

Compile a kernel with DDB interactive kernel debugger support
("options DDB" in your kernel config file), and use the Ctrl-Alt-Esc
vulcan nerve pinch to break to the debugger.  Now, just tell the
system to "panic", et voila.

See

    http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug-online-ddb.html

for details.

	Cheers,

	Matthew


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