Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 13:51:57 +0100 (BST) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> To: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> Cc: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: unnecessary savecore warnings Message-ID: <20050717135014.E19319@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <42D9D959.5030304@root.org> References: <42D9D959.5030304@root.org>
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On Sat, 16 Jul 2005, Nate Lawson wrote: > I noticed that in the past few months, savecore has begun complaining if > the bounds file in /var/crash doesn't exist. Can we add it to > /usr/src/etc/Makefile like the corresponding entry for minfree? > > Also, I noticed that /etc/rc.d/savecore has started complaining early in > boot if you have dumpdev="AUTO", giving the message "kenv: unable to get > dumpdev". Of course, it works just fine and detects the slice with > "swap" in /etc/fstab. So the warning is spurious and should be > silenced. I've noticed this also, and see if on my NanoBSD Soekris box. Given that the machine doesn't have a partition set up for dumping, and I don't want its dumps, I'd rather it didn't complain, as that will just cause unnecessary worry and questions. This is similar to the devfs-at-shutdown error. An error message that is a result of a harmless "problem" results in significant concern for end-users, which results in more bug reports, less happy users, etc. Robert N M Watson
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