From owner-cvs-etc Sun Mar 16 08:54:33 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA06592 for cvs-etc-outgoing; Sun, 16 Mar 1997 08:54:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from bofh.cybercity.dk (bofh.cybercity.dk [195.8.128.254]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA06533; Sun, 16 Mar 1997 08:53:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.dk.tfs.com (phk.cybercity.dk [195.8.133.247]) by bofh.cybercity.dk (8.8.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA00763; Sun, 16 Mar 1997 17:55:06 +0100 (MET) Received: from critter.dk.tfs.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.dk.tfs.com (8.8.2/8.8.2) with ESMTP id QAA05991; Sun, 16 Mar 1997 16:44:25 +0100 (MET) To: Joerg Wunsch cc: CVS-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, cvs-etc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc rc sysconfig In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 16 Mar 1997 07:26:37 PST." <199703161526.HAA01466@freefall.freebsd.org> Date: Sun, 16 Mar 1997 16:44:25 +0100 Message-ID: <5989.858527065@critter.dk.tfs.com> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-cvs-etc@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In message <199703161526.HAA01466@freefall.freebsd.org>, Joerg Wunsch writes: >joerg 97/03/16 07:26:36 > > Modified: etc rc sysconfig > Log: > Having two knobs until you get a kernel core dump saved is silly. > Leave dumpdev, but kill the savecore variable. Thus, it's still off > by default, but all you need is enabling dumpdev now. > > phk's old argument that savecore might inadvertendly fill up the disk > no longer counts, savecore now correctly obeyes a `minfree' file, and > we ship our systems with such a file that even has a reasonable > default. And consequently phk has no problem with it anymore :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Power and ignorance is a disgusting cocktail.