Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 13:03:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> To: Ed Maste <emaste@phaedrus.sandvine.ca> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: savecore(8) increments /var/crash/bounds on each boot Message-ID: <20050613130317.G2682@carver.gumbysoft.com> In-Reply-To: <20050613192308.GA87640@sandvine.com> References: <20050613192308.GA87640@sandvine.com>
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On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Ed Maste wrote: > I notice that as of sbin/savecore/savecore.c 1.72 and in 5.4-RELEASE > savecore increments the number in /var/crash/bounds on each boot, > regardless of whether it rebooted due to panic or was a clean shutdown. > > Is this the desired behaviour or an unintentional side effect? > We've been monitoring the value in bounds to detect panics, which > of course doesn't work anymore. Its certainly not the historical behavior :-) Think you could submit a patch with the fix? -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org
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