Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 15:40:03 -0800 (PST) From: "Crist J. Clark" <crist.clark@attbi.com> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: conf/35725: /etc/rc should create missing "dumpdir". Message-ID: <200203102340.g2ANe3V90540@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR conf/35725; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: "Crist J. Clark" <crist.clark@attbi.com>
To: "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@blarg.net>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: conf/35725: /etc/rc should create missing "dumpdir".
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 15:32:10 -0800
On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 03:00:19PM -0800, Gary W. Swearingen wrote:
> "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@FreeBSD.ORG> writes:
>
> > I don't think that is a good idea (what if $dumpdev was fat fingered
> > someplace is shouldn't be and say, filled up your root
> > filesystem). However, it currently fails silently, which I don't think
> > is good either. How about have rc(8) bitch about it,
>
> Sounds like you speak from experience. I'll not argue with that.
>
> We'll need to rely mostly on a good warning in the FAQ and man page(s).
> Unless you educate me that I've got the PR SOP wrong, I'll write another
> PR on the docs and leave this PR for your change to "/etc/rc".
>
> Your patch looked good, except I'd prefer a stronger notice (of what
> happened) to the person recovering from this intermittent crash he's
> been awaiting for several days:
>
> echo "NOTICE: Core dump was lost because '${dumpdir}' was not a directory."
But we don't know if a dump was lost or not. You'd see the error
everytime you booted. I'll word it more strongly, and I think perhaps
another check may be in order.
--
Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu
| cjclark@jhu.edu
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