Re: savecore(8) increments /var/crash/bounds on each boot

From: David O'Brien <obrien_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 01:20:39 -0700
On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 03:23:08PM -0400, 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?

It is an unintentional side affect.  If I wasn't constantly experiencing
kernel landminds every time I sit down to do major FreeBSD, I would have
gotten to this issue.

-- 
-- David  (who's spending his 4th hour tracking down new panics)
Received on Tue Jun 14 2005 - 06:20:40 UTC

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