From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 19 14:21:04 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 3629F16A47E for ; Tue, 19 Dec 2006 14:21:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from joe@joeholden.co.uk) Received: from claire.ber.rewt.org.uk (claire.ber.rewt.org.uk [217.160.200.67]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F6D043CA2 for ; Tue, 19 Dec 2006 14:19:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from joe@joeholden.co.uk) Received: from localhost (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by claire.ber.rewt.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53C725C4F; Tue, 19 Dec 2006 13:48:36 +0000 (GMT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at claire.ber.rewt.org.uk Received: from claire.ber.rewt.org.uk ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (claire.ber.rewt.org.uk [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id LeQ+9h0aHIHc; Tue, 19 Dec 2006 13:48:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: from [82.152.108.188] (dyn188.stf.rewt.org.uk [82.152.108.188]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by claire.ber.rewt.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD27F5C4E; Tue, 19 Dec 2006 13:48:28 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <4587EDBF.3020804@joeholden.co.uk> Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 13:48:47 +0000 From: Joe Holden User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (Windows/20061025) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ma 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> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Stefan Bethke , Dominic Marks 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 14:21:04 -0000 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. Ta, Joe