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Subject: bin/5576: syslogds starts before savecore
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>Number:         5576
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       syslogds starts before savecore
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Jan 26 18:50:01 PST 1998
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     John Hawkinson
>Organization:
NLANR
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE i386
>Environment:

	

>Description:

	savecore runs before syslogd in /etc/rc. This means
	that if savecore fails (for instance, the disk is full)
	then it's diagnostics are not preserved.

>How-To-Repeat:

	Cause a machine with a full /var/crash to to panic; observe
	there is no way to determine why the machine rebooted from
	looking at logs, etc., etc. No crash dumps in /var/crash,
	of course, etc., etc.

>Fix:
	
	Re-order /etc/rc such that savecore runs after syslogd.

>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: