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Date:      Sun, 16 Mar 1997 16:44:25 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.dk.tfs.com>
To:        Joerg Wunsch <joerg@freebsd.org>
Cc:        CVS-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, cvs-etc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc rc sysconfig 
Message-ID:  <5989.858527065@critter.dk.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 16 Mar 1997 07:26:37 PST." <199703161526.HAA01466@freefall.freebsd.org> 

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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 :-)

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