From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 23 20:40:49 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA19093 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 23 Jun 1997 20:40:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from agora.rdrop.com (root@agora.rdrop.com [199.2.210.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA19085 for ; Mon, 23 Jun 1997 20:40:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by agora.rdrop.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA10797 for ; Mon, 23 Jun 1997 20:40:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id NAA22177; Tue, 24 Jun 1997 13:08:14 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199706240338.NAA22177@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: core dump and tftp ... In-Reply-To: from Raul Zighelboim at "Jun 23, 97 09:36:34 pm" To: mango@staff.communique.net (Raul Zighelboim) Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 13:08:13 +0930 (CST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Raul Zighelboim stands accused of saying: > > Is there a way to get FreeBSD to send core dumps _in the event of a > crash_ to a tftp server instead than to the swap file ? Not without lots of work, no. The workstations that support this manage to do it by having a completely separate TCP stack in their firmware; once the kernel has crashed there's no way that you could expect it to be able to continue functioning. Sorry this isn't the answer you were looking for. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[