savecore(8) increments /var/crash/bounds on each boot

[Doug White]

On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Ed Maste wrote:

> I notice that as of sbin/savecore/savecore.c 1.72 and in 5.4-RELEASE
> savecore increments the number in /var/crash/bounds on each boot,
> regardless of whether it rebooted due to panic or was a clean shutdown.
>
> Is this the desired behaviour or an unintentional side effect?
> We've been monitoring the value in bounds to detect panics, which
> of course doesn't work anymore.

Its certainly not the historical behavior :-)

Think you could submit a patch with the fix?

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