Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 13:54:06 +0000 From: Dominic Marks <dom@helenmarks.co.uk> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: (Seemingly) Spontaneous rebooting Message-ID: <20061219135406.f455b19c.dom@helenmarks.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4587EDBF.3020804@joeholden.co.uk> References: <455D5F38.4060208@joeholden.co.uk> <232F7011-5BCC-4616-82CC-973D1CB41593@lassitu.de> <455D66D6.8080708@joeholden.co.uk> <20061117114754.dafdbc1a.dom@helenmarks.co.uk> <455DBAAD.6080403@joeholden.co.uk> <0BE259F4-95BC-4A44-983F-5F65921EFD14@lassitu.de> <455DBF71.8060203@joeholden.co.uk> <455FCB7C.8000600@joeholden.co.uk> <fb8e309e0612190119t184691e9v8ca7b52d191fdd6e@mail.gmail.com> <4587EDBF.3020804@joeholden.co.uk>
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On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 13:48:47 +0000 Joe Holden <joe@joeholden.co.uk> wrote: > Ma wrote: > > I have almost the same reboots on my server. :( And it may reboot > > serval times a day. I'd like to know how to get crash dumps? What is > > added in your rc.conf? > > > > -- > > Ma Jie > > > Hi, I used the rc.conf values as set out in rc,conf(5) > > root@claire# grep crash /etc/defaults/rc.conf > dumpdev="NO" # Device to crashdump to (device name, AUTO, or NO). > dumpdir="/var/crash" # Directory where crash dumps are to be stored > > I set dumpdev to my swap partition, although nothing got dumped, > although I did upgrade it to -CURRENT as i'd exhausted everything else, > and its not crashed since, not wishing to flame/troll/whatever, but 6.x > seems to have a fair few issues. Did you make sure that /var was large enough to accommodate the crash dump? I've made that mistake before. > Ta, > Joe Dom
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