From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 16 14:12:16 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 16 14:12:14 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 299B537B400 for ; Sat, 16 Dec 2000 14:12:14 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 5510 invoked by uid 100); 16 Dec 2000 22:12:03 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14907.59571.365940.747609@guru.mired.org> Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 16:12:03 -0600 (CST) To: "Rick Moore" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mysterious Crashes... In-Reply-To: <37373499@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Rick Moore types: > Identical servers under less strenuous activity run for months without a > problem. I'm not even sure if there is a "panic" before it reboots, and I'm > not sure where the kernel dumps would get placed. Is there a way to get a > clue as to what's going on? Just pointing me at the right documentation > would be a great help. You need to add 'dumpdev="/dev/XXXXXX"' to /etc/rc.conf. The "XXXX" is the device you are swapping to (well it could be some other device you're not using, but swap is what's normally used). The crash dump will be put in /var/crash. See the dumpon and savecore man pages for details. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Unix/FreeBSD consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message