From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 19 14:19:53 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5F8716A492 for ; Tue, 19 Dec 2006 14:19:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dom@helenmarks.co.uk) Received: from mailhost.graphdata.co.uk (mailhost.graphdata.co.uk [195.12.22.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DEF443C9F for ; Tue, 19 Dec 2006 14:18:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dom@helenmarks.co.uk) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mailhost.graphdata.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AFE311402E for ; Tue, 19 Dec 2006 13:54:09 +0000 (GMT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at graphdata.co.uk Received: from mailhost.graphdata.co.uk ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mailhost.graphdata.co.uk [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id TRLBT4izAs9C for ; Tue, 19 Dec 2006 13:54:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: from gdc083.internal.graphdata.co.uk (gdc083.internal.graphdata.co.uk [192.168.0.86]) by mailhost.graphdata.co.uk (Postfix) with SMTP id 57221114023 for ; Tue, 19 Dec 2006 13:54:06 +0000 (GMT) Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 13:54:06 +0000 From: Dominic Marks To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20061219135406.f455b19c.dom@helenmarks.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4587EDBF.3020804@joeholden.co.uk> References: <455D5F38.4060208@joeholden.co.uk> <232F7011-5BCC-4616-82CC-973D1CB41593@lassitu.de> <455D66D6.8080708@joeholden.co.uk> <20061117114754.dafdbc1a.dom@helenmarks.co.uk> <455DBAAD.6080403@joeholden.co.uk> <0BE259F4-95BC-4A44-983F-5F65921EFD14@lassitu.de> <455DBF71.8060203@joeholden.co.uk> <455FCB7C.8000600@joeholden.co.uk> <4587EDBF.3020804@joeholden.co.uk> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.9 (GTK+ 2.10.6; i386-portbld-freebsd6.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: (Seemingly) Spontaneous rebooting X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 14:19:53 -0000 On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 13:48:47 +0000 Joe Holden wrote: > Ma wrote: > > I have almost the same reboots on my server. :( And it may reboot > > serval times a day. I'd like to know how to get crash dumps? What is > > added in your rc.conf? > > > > -- > > Ma Jie > > > Hi, I used the rc.conf values as set out in rc,conf(5) > > root@claire# grep crash /etc/defaults/rc.conf > dumpdev="NO" # Device to crashdump to (device name, AUTO, or NO). > dumpdir="/var/crash" # Directory where crash dumps are to be stored > > I set dumpdev to my swap partition, although nothing got dumped, > although I did upgrade it to -CURRENT as i'd exhausted everything else, > and its not crashed since, not wishing to flame/troll/whatever, but 6.x > seems to have a fair few issues. Did you make sure that /var was large enough to accommodate the crash dump? I've made that mistake before. > Ta, > Joe Dom