Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 19:39:01 +0200 (CEST) From: Maxime Henrion <mux@qualys.com> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: conf/30596: Patch to specify a different directory to savecore Message-ID: <200109151739.f8FHd1g02281@nebula.cybercable.fr>
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>Number: 30596
>Category: conf
>Synopsis: Patch to specify a different directory to savecore
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Sat Sep 15 11:10:00 PDT 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Maxime Henrion
>Release: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386
>Organization:
None.
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD nebula.cybercable.fr 5.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #103: Sat Sep 15 18:03:06 CEST 2001 mux@nebula.cybercable.fr:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/NEBULA i386
>Description:
This patchs adds a savecore_dir know in rc.conf so that it's
possible to specify another directory than /var/crash. The default
is unchanged.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
--- savecore.patch begins here ---
--- /etc/rc Tue Sep 11 20:44:22 2001
+++ rc Tue Sep 11 20:45:47 2001
@@ -485,17 +485,17 @@
fi
# Enable dumpdev so that savecore can see it.
-# /var/crash should be a directory or a symbolic link
+# ${savecore_dir} should be a directory or a symbolic link
# to the crash directory if core dumps are to be saved.
#
case ${dumpdev} in
[Nn][Oo] | '')
;;
*)
- if [ -e "${dumpdev}" -a -d /var/crash ]; then
+ if [ -e "${dumpdev}" -a -d "${savecore_dir}" ]; then
/sbin/dumpon -v ${dumpdev}
echo -n 'Checking for core dump: '
- /sbin/savecore ${savecore_flags} /var/crash
+ /sbin/savecore ${savecore_flags} ${savecore_dir}
fi
;;
esac
--- /etc/defaults/rc.conf Tue Sep 11 20:43:40 2001
+++ rc.conf Tue Sep 11 20:43:30 2001
@@ -326,6 +326,7 @@
diskcheckd_flags="" # Flags to diskcheckd(8).
dumpdev="NO" # Device name to crashdump to (or NO).
savecore_flags="" # Used if dumpdev is enabled above, and present.
+savecore_dir="/var/crash" # Where to put the kernel core dumps.
enable_quotas="NO" # turn on quotas on startup (or NO).
check_quotas="YES" # Check quotas on startup (or NO).
accounting_enable="NO" # Turn on process accounting (or NO).
--- savecore.patch ends here ---
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