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author | ru <ru@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-05-29 16:53:27 +0000 |
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committer | ru <ru@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-05-29 16:53:27 +0000 |
commit | cd938388995b8934503fbb460a0132f24a9793c8 (patch) | |
tree | fd95ec8f7e6dc4d242ca406c935d6f4e7b924106 /sbin/savecore | |
parent | 468da1a22dfa2fe6932657f293675160500feb1c (diff) | |
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mdoc(7) police: nits.
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1 files changed, 21 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/savecore/savecore.8 b/sbin/savecore/savecore.8 index 34dc86b..6f63132 100644 --- a/sbin/savecore/savecore.8 +++ b/sbin/savecore/savecore.8 @@ -45,11 +45,13 @@ .Op Fl fkvz .Op Ar directory Op Ar device ... .Sh DESCRIPTION -.Nm Savecore +The +.Nm +utility copies a core dump into -.Fa directory , +.Ar directory , or the current working directory if no -.Fa directory +.Ar directory argument is given, and enters a reboot message and information about the core dump into the system log. @@ -71,13 +73,20 @@ Compress the core dump and kernel (see .Xr gzip 1 ) . .El .Pp -.Nm Savecore +The +.Nm +utility looks for dumps on each device specified by the .Ar device argument(s), or on each device in .Pa /etc/fstab -marked as "dump" or "swap". -.Nm Savecore +marked as +.Dq dump +or +.Dq swap . +The +.Nm +utility checks the core dump in various ways to make sure that it is complete. If it passes these checks, it saves the core image in .Ar directory Ns Pa /vmcore.# @@ -89,7 +98,9 @@ and it is incremented and stored back into the file each time .Nm successfully runs. .Pp -.Nm Savecore +The +.Nm +utility also checks the available disk space before attempting to make the copies. If there is insufficient disk space in the filesystem containing .Ar directory , @@ -106,7 +117,9 @@ so that future invocations of .Nm will ignore it. .Pp -.Nm Savecore +The +.Nm +utility is meant to be called near the end of the initialization file .Pa /etc/rc (see |