Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 17:40:29 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com> Cc: mistwolf@ethereal.net, rfg@monkeys.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A suggested kernel enhancement relating to kernel panics. Message-ID: <19990617174029.B7287@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <199906172032.QAA77440@lakes.dignus.com>; from "Thomas David Rivers" on Thu Jun 17 16:32:51 GMT 1999 References: <19990617132224.A28613@ethereal.net> <199906172032.QAA77440@lakes.dignus.com>
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In the last episode (Jun 17), Thomas David Rivers said:
>
> If you have the savecore file from the panic, I've done
> this in the past:
>
> strings savecore.XX | grep "panic"
>
> usually the message pops right out :-)
When savecore saves a core, it logs the panic string via syslog:
if (panicstr)
syslog(LOG_ALERT, "reboot after panic: %s", panic_mesg);
else
syslog(LOG_ALERT, "reboot");
So it's in /var/log/messages too.
-Dan Nelson
dnelson@emsphone.com
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