On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 09:59:39PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > I just generated one of these mails for myself, and I think it's > perfectly reasonably worded. The subject "Segfault in Samba", > however, could be worded more neutrally. How about this:
I think this might be a little /too/ neutral... :) Can we say perhaps "Segfault or panic in Samba" for the subject, or "Segfault or assertion", so it's a little more explicit what kind of problem there was? A pointer to the logs might also be a good idea to include, since Samba frequently generates better backtraces for itself than gdb does. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ > Index: debian/panic-action > =================================================================== > --- debian/panic-action (Revision 1139) > +++ debian/panic-action (Arbeitskopie) > @@ -18,11 +18,12 @@ > > # Generic header for our email > echo "The Samba 'panic action' script, $0," > - echo "was called for pid $1 ($BINARYNAME)." > + echo "was called for PID $1 ($BINARYNAME)." > echo > > + echo "This means there was a problem with the program, such as a > segfault." > + > if [ -z "$BINARYNAME" ]; then > - echo "This means there was a problem with the program, such > as a segfault." > echo "However, the executable could not be found for process > $1." > echo "It may have died unexpectedly, or you may not have > permission to" > echo "debug the process." > @@ -31,7 +32,6 @@ > > # No debugger > if [ ! -x /usr/bin/gdb ]; then > - echo "This means there was a problem with the program, such > as a segfault." > echo "However, gdb was not found on your system, so the error > could not be" > echo "debugged. Please install the gdb package so that > debugging information is" > echo "available the next time such a problem occurs." > @@ -48,4 +48,4 @@ > echo "http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting or the reportbug(1) > manpage." > echo > gdb -x /etc/samba/gdbcommands -batch "$BINARYNAME" "$1" > -) | mail -s "Segfault in Samba" root > +) | mail -s "Problem in Samba" root > >
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