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Article #146Re: detecting crash dumps on boot?
From: Robert Keller
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 18:40
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 18:40
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clk@ernie.Princeton.EDU (Christopher Kranz) writes: >What I'd like to do is determine if a crash dump exists on the swap device >before /etc/savecore runs and then make room for the vmcore file that >/etc/savecore creates by deleteing other files in the same file system. Take a look at the savecore(1M) man page, especially the description section. You'll likely want to put a hook in /etc/rc2.d/S48savecore, or if you have another filesystem with enough space, simply use /etc/config/savecore.options. ...robert
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!olivea!sgigate!sgi!fido!not-for-mail From: rck@fangio.asd.sgi.com (Robert Keller) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.admin Subject: Re: detecting crash dumps on boot? Message-ID: <1iv3a8INNsdo@fangio.asd.sgi.com> Date: 12 Jan 93 18:40:08 GMT References: <1993Jan12.155743.11378@Princeton.EDU> Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA Lines: 10 NNTP-Posting-Host: fangio.asd.sgi.com