From owner-cvs-all Mon Mar 11 13:22:59 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3A7437B43C; Mon, 11 Mar 2002 13:22:20 -0800 (PST) Received: by flood.ping.uio.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id 21B8A5347; Mon, 11 Mar 2002 22:22:18 +0100 (CET) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: "Crist J. Clark" Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc rc src/share/man/man5 rc.conf.5 References: <200203110847.g2B8l4714026@freefall.freebsd.org> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 11 Mar 2002 22:22:17 +0100 In-Reply-To: <200203110847.g2B8l4714026@freefall.freebsd.org> Message-ID: Lines: 12 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Crist J. Clark" writes: > At the same time, allow the administrator to have dumpdev enabled > while dumpdir (savecore(8)) is disabled and document how to do it. Speaking of dumpdev, 'dumpon ${dumpdev}' should be one of the very very first things we do in /etc/rc, before even fsck - it's not uncommon for kernel bugs to cause panics during the boot process, and it's a PITA not to have a dump device configured in time. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message