What are the likely causes of reboots?

Paul Schmehl pauls at utdallas.edu
Mon Oct 10 09:33:57 PDT 2005


--On Monday, October 10, 2005 09:57:29 -0600 "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" 
<chad at shire.net> wrote:
>
> Set it up to record the kernel crash dump when it crashes so you can  see
> what it says...
>
> <http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/
> kerneldebug.html>
>
I've got a bit of a problem.  I didn't configure this box, and swap is only 
250MB.  Physical memory is a gig.  Is there a workaround that would allow 
me to write a core file to somewhere else?  (And why is /var/crash the 
default if dumps can't be written to the file system?)

Paul Schmehl (pauls at utdallas.edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/


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