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| author | sheldonh <sheldonh@FreeBSD.org> | 2000-03-28 15:54:32 +0000 |
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| committer | sheldonh <sheldonh@FreeBSD.org> | 2000-03-28 15:54:32 +0000 |
| commit | 5510bc1924ab9d1571f72994542c550a67230159 (patch) | |
| tree | 03bd35bdb003d46338183cbfb5f8aaaca4feeac0 /sbin/dumpon | |
| parent | 2442f64e8a401a60a2f9a9a5a2e1083b7a8e4369 (diff) | |
| download | FreeBSD-src-5510bc1924ab9d1571f72994542c550a67230159.zip FreeBSD-src-5510bc1924ab9d1571f72994542c550a67230159.tar.gz | |
Back out the new advice introduced in the previous commit, which at
least one reviewer is now unhappy with, since it contains incomplete
and misleading advice that is not easy to correct.
The net effect of this commit and the previous commit is to simply
remove all discussion of setting dumpdev to catch crash dumps
prior to entering user mode.
Diffstat (limited to 'sbin/dumpon')
| -rw-r--r-- | sbin/dumpon/dumpon.8 | 21 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 21 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/dumpon/dumpon.8 b/sbin/dumpon/dumpon.8 index 1ee8717..72b4a3e 100644 --- a/sbin/dumpon/dumpon.8 +++ b/sbin/dumpon/dumpon.8 @@ -85,27 +85,6 @@ or to .Ar special_file is the text string: .Dq Li off . -.Pp -The -.Xr ddb 4 -interactive kernel debugger may be used -to specify a device for crash dumps -that occur in single-user mode. -For example, -the following command at the -.Xr ddb 4 -prompt would return the device number for the swap device -.Pa /dev/ad0s1b : -.Bd -literal -offset ident -show disk/ad0s1b -.Ed -.Pp -The value returned could then be written to the -.Va dumpdev -kernel variable as follows: -.Bd -literal -offset indent -write dumpdev 0xc0b65800 -.Ed .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr sysctl 3 , .Xr fstab 5 , |
