On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 01:03:50PM -0700, Doug White wrote: > 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? The attached patch does the trick. In -vv mode the bounds used to be included with the first/last dump header output -- I just replaced it with -1. Problem originally discovered by Adrian Dewhurst. -- Ed Maste, Sandvine Inc.
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