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On Apr 17, 2007, at 11:45 AM, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:

> Is there some setting I should set so that in future crashes will  
> be dumped there [/var/crash]?

Never mind,  I've just found what I needed in man rc.conf, I've now  
set dumpdev and dumpdir in rc.conf and am rebuilding the kernel with  
debugging.

It's been a long time since I've looked at a core dump, and I don't  
think I've ever looked at a kernel dump.  And now I'm not sure  
whether I want the system to crash again (so that I can try to figure  
out what the problem is) or not.

Cheers,

-j


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Jeffrey Goldberg                        http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/