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- From: louie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
- Subject: Re: "remote debugging enabled"?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.151246.4454@ni.umd.edu>
- Date: 11 Sep 92 15:12:46 GMT
- References: <KYW6ENG@minnie.zdv.uni-mainz.de>
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- In article <KYW6ENG@minnie.zdv.uni-mainz.de> pom@anke.imsd.uni-mainz.DE (Prof. Dr. Klaus Pommerening) writes:
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- >When I boot my NeXT from the console I get the message
- >"remote debugging enabled". What does this mean?
- >Is it a security hole?
-
- Likely it means the when the kernel panics, it will accept remote
- debugging commands from a kgdb program running on another NeXT on that
- ethernet segment. From there, you can do all of the normal sort of
- kernel debugging to see why the machine paniced and died. This is
- likely more helpful for NeXT rather than the poor user with a broken
- machine as he likely can't fix the problem himself.
-
- louie
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