One sentence seems to have disappeared somehow :-P

Jukka Salmi --> current-users (2007-03-28 15:45:02 +0200):
> Hi,
> 
> on a semi-production system I wanted to run some ddb commands in case
> of kernel panics while still achieving best possible uptime, i.e.
> without having to intervene manually to get the system up and running
> again. I set
> 
> 	ddb.onpanic=1
> 	ddb.tee_msgbuf=1
> 	ddb.commandonenter='trace; [...]; reboot 0x4'
> 
> and configured the system notice me in case of an unclean shutdown.
> 
> This didn't really work as expected because the ddb.commandonenter
> commands caused ddb to print more than ddb.lines (24) lines of output;
> thus ddb waited for user input to print the next page of output, and
> didn't execute the `reboot' command automatically...
> 
> To fix this problem I added a new variable `batchmode', accessible via
> sysctl(3) as the other built-in ddb variables.

If set, ddb doesn't prompt for user input after 24 (or whatever
ddb.lines is set to) lines were output.


Regards, Jukka

> The resulting patch
> against netbsd-4 is attached.
> 
> Comments are welcome. Please tell in case this is of use for anybody
> else, and I'll send a PR.

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