Chapter 21. SYSTEM (AND SYSADMIN)PANICS AND CRASHES

SYSTEM (AND SYSADMIN)PANICS AND CRASHES

One of the nicest things about FreeBSD is its stability; the only Blue Screen of Death you can find is a screensaver. In fact, I ran FreeBSD for almost a year before seeing a machine crash for reasons other than bad hardware. FreeBSD can crash, or panic, but it allows you to recover from a panic fairly easily—so don’t, er, panic. You can even connect to the remote console during a panic and force a reboot. FreeBSD provides the tools you need to discover exactly what happened as well as extensive debugging information about the panic. Even if you don’t know what to do with this information, you ...

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