Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 09:26:18 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Brian Adkins <brian@lojic.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Enabling dumping Message-ID: <19990324092618.I425@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990323142119.00ae9f10@mailbox.iwaynet.net>; from Brian Adkins on Tue, Mar 23, 1999 at 02:25:43PM -0500 References: <4.1.19990323142119.00ae9f10@mailbox.iwaynet.net>
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On Tuesday, 23 March 1999 at 14:25:43 -0500, Brian Adkins wrote: > After my recent panic attack :) I want to enable dumping in /etc/rc.conf > > In my "The Complete FreeBSD" book 2nd. ed. p. 88, it says to change the > following: > > dumpdev=NO > savecore=NO > > to: > > dumpdev=/dev/wd0s1b (where this is the swap device) > savecore=YES > > I had the dumpdev line in rc.conf, so I changed it appropriately, but there > was no savecore, so I added the line. Is this correct, or does having > dumpdev set to a device imply savecore thus making it redundant. Yes, they've changed the semantics, so you no longer need the 'savecore' variable. It doesn't do any harm, though. > Is there any way of testing this ie. simulate a panic? The way I do it is to drop into ddb and enter the 'panic' command. But that requires ddb to be configured, of course. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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