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- From: rck@fangio.asd.sgi.com (Robert Keller)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.admin
- Subject: Re: detecting crash dumps on boot?
- Message-ID: <1iv3a8INNsdo@fangio.asd.sgi.com>
- Date: 12 Jan 93 18:40:08 GMT
- References: <1993Jan12.155743.11378@Princeton.EDU>
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- clk@ernie.Princeton.EDU (Christopher Kranz) writes:
- >What I'd like to do is determine if a crash dump exists on the swap device
- >before /etc/savecore runs and then make room for the vmcore file that
- >/etc/savecore creates by deleteing other files in the same file system.
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- Take a look at the savecore(1M) man page, especially the description section.
- You'll likely want to put a hook in /etc/rc2.d/S48savecore, or if you
- have another filesystem with enough space, simply use /etc/config/savecore.options.
-
- ...robert
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