docs/50790: [patch] Expand description of dumpdev use in Developers Handbook

Chris Pepper pepper at reppep.com
Fri Apr 11 16:10:15 UTC 2003


The following reply was made to PR docs/50790; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Chris Pepper <pepper at reppep.com>
To: "Simon L.Nielsen" <simon at nitro.dk>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: docs/50790: [patch] Expand description of dumpdev use in
 Developers 	Handbook
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 12:01:44 -0400

 At 8:35 PM +0200 2003/04/10, Simon L.Nielsen wrote:
 >  >Number:         50790
 >>Category:       docs
 >  >Synopsis:       [patch] Expand description of dumpdev use in Developers
 >
 >--- doc-develbook-crashdump.patch begins here ---
 >Index: kerneldebug/chapter.sgml
 >===================================================================
 >RCS file: 
 >/home/ncvs/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug/chapter.sgml,v
 >retrieving revision 1.45
 >diff -u -d -r1.45 chapter.sgml
 >--- kerneldebug/chapter.sgml	12 Jan 2003 18:31:39 -0000	1.45
 >+++ kerneldebug/chapter.sgml	10 Apr 2003 18:23:14 -0000
 >@@ -24,7 +24,12 @@
 >  	(note that this will have to be done after configuring the partition in
 >  	question as swap space via &man.swapon.8;).  This is normally arranged
 >  	by setting the <varname>dumpdev</varname> variable in
 >-	<filename>/etc/rc.conf</filename>.</para>
 >+	&man.rc.conf.5;.  If you have set <varname>dumpdev</varname> variable
 
 	s/set <varname>dumpdev</varname> variable/
 	  set the <varname>dumpdev</varname> variable/
 or	s/set <varname>dumpdev</varname> variable/
 	  set <varname>dumpdev</varname>/
 
 >+	in &man.rc.conf.5; the &man.savecore.8; program will automatically be
 >+	called on the first multi-user boot after the crash and save the kernel
 >+	crash dump to the directory specified in the &man.rc.conf.5;
 >+	<varname>dumpdir</varname> variable (the default directory is
 >+	<filename>/var/crash</filename>).</para>
 
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