How to do a kernel dump?

Denny White dennyboy at cableone.net
Fri Mar 3 04:02:45 PST 2006


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Today Olivier Nicole spake forth boldly:
>> This isn't guaranteed 100% correct, but at least if it's not,
>> maybe it'll get someone else involved.
>> Below my "dumpdev" in rc.conf I have
>> savecore_flags="-z"
>> to compress the core dump & kernel with gzip. Also, read man savecore
>> again, esp the part about minfree in /var/crash & free kilobytes for
>> non-superusers in the file system after the copies would be made.
>
> Thanks Denny, that was 100% correct.
>
> Olivier
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Glad I could finally help someone else out. I owe this list a lot
of thanks. Usually, I'm the one asking for help. :-)
Denny White

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