From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14008 invoked by alias); 30 Oct 2008 08:38:57 -0000 Received: (qmail 14000 invoked by uid 22791); 30 Oct 2008 08:38:57 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from wildebeest.demon.nl (HELO gnu.wildebeest.org) (80.101.103.228) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 30 Oct 2008 08:38:54 +0000 Received: from dijkstra.wildebeest.org ([192.168.1.29]) by gnu.wildebeest.org with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1KvT3K-0004Ln-9W for frysk@sourceware.org; Thu, 30 Oct 2008 09:38:51 +0100 Subject: Nice usage of frysk From: Mark Wielaard To: Frysk List Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 08:38:00 -0000 Message-Id: <1225355930.3289.2.camel@dijkstra.wildebeest.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.3.1 (2.22.3.1-1.fc9) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.4 (----) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact frysk-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: frysk-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2008-q4/txt/msg00001.txt.bz2 Nice usage of frysk (fdebuginfo and fstack) Here's the result of a few minutes of hacking up something similar to Apport based on the awesome (and much underused) Frysk debugging tool kit. It doesn't post any backtraces on any Internet servers and has no fancy UI -- but it automatically dumps a stacktrace of every crashing process on the system to syslog and stores all kinds of data in /tmp/core.*/ for later inspection. http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/automatic-backtrace.html