reporting/detecting kernel panics

["Martin F. Krafft" <madduck@madduck.net>]

hi all,

as i said in a previous message, one of my machines continuously
kernel panics. i am thinking this has to do with swapping, but the
swap partition is 100% bad-block free, so i am at a loss.

nevertheless, i would like to detect such a kernel panic.
is it somehow possible to save the screen output from a kernel panic?
then i would write an rc file that would email root this output on a
new reboot and delete the file. the 60 seconds reboot configured in
/proc/sys/kernel/panic works, so that way i'd know whenever the system
automatically rebooted, and i could use the output for further
debugging...

thanks,

martin;              (greetings from the heart of the sun.)
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