System Panics, Part 2: Recovering and Debugging

LiquidPC writes: "This is Part 2 in a two-part series on system panics. In his first column, Michael Lucas talked about how to prepare a FreeBSD system in case of a panic. In this column, he talks about what to do when the worst happens."

Re:*BSD is dying

[boltar]

Any box thats been running for 1200 days (ie over 3 years!!) deserves to be hacked since the admin
is obviously too lazy or just too irresponsible to have done any security patches to the machine
(which would require a reboot). There is NO operating system unix or otherwise which has not
found some sort of security flaw either in the kernel or in a server app in that length of time.

Solution!

[Icephreak1]

"In this column, he talks about what to do when the worst happens."

This one's too easy: switch to Linux [gentoo.org]

Re:Solution!

[ASyndicate]

I tried Gentoo, hated it. :(
I am no newbie either. Its just, They patch anything and everything without any regard for side effects, I have had 4 different boxes corrupt a filesystem with gentoo. Then I said, thats it. I have had enough. Bye.

If you tell me that there isnt a system that the worst can happen, I had a deal that you could make 10,000 at home.