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Date:      Mon, 10 Oct 2005 11:33:56 -0500
From:      Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: What are the likely causes of reboots?
Message-ID:  <5FFB5A9BEDCEE5A292071AE7@utd59514.utdallas.edu>
In-Reply-To: <BE884A19-DF18-4A39-BD6C-3BE97D9EA329@shire.net>
References:  <F0EAE3DB1691D5877B62DBA2@utd59514.utdallas.edu> <BE884A19-DF18-4A39-BD6C-3BE97D9EA329@shire.net>

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--On Monday, October 10, 2005 09:57:29 -0600 "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" 
<chad@shire.net> wrote:
>
> Set it up to record the kernel crash dump when it crashes so you can  see
> what it says...
>
> <http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/
> kerneldebug.html>
>
I've got a bit of a problem.  I didn't configure this box, and swap is only 
250MB.  Physical memory is a gig.  Is there a workaround that would allow 
me to write a core file to somewhere else?  (And why is /var/crash the 
default if dumps can't be written to the file system?)

Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/



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