From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jan 3 19:38:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA25268 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 3 Jan 1998 19:38:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA25240 for ; Sat, 3 Jan 1998 19:37:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA20782; Sun, 4 Jan 1998 14:07:25 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id OAA07710; Sun, 4 Jan 1998 14:07:24 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980104140724.46961@lemis.com> Date: Sun, 4 Jan 1998 14:07:24 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Warpy Cc: FreeBSD Hackers Subject: Re: Why dump to /var?? References: <19980104102759.11459@lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84e In-Reply-To: ; from Warpy on Sat, Jan 03, 1998 at 06:09:18AM -0800 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Sat, Jan 03, 1998 at 06:09:18AM -0800, Warpy wrote: > On a similar note, Hmm. It's not clear whether this is a followup to my message or not, but since it's sent to -hackers, I'd think it was. My message contains the answer: > how By specifying the name of the directory. savecore looks for (and creates if it doesn't find it) a file called bounds, which contains the number of the next dump. It copies the dump to a file dump., and the current /kernel to kernel. > /where In /etc/rc > do i specify where coredump files go as opposed to the current > directory. Greg