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| -rw-r--r-- | share/man/man5/rc.conf.5 | 29 |
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diff --git a/share/man/man5/rc.conf.5 b/share/man/man5/rc.conf.5 index a90c330..cd83de0 100644 --- a/share/man/man5/rc.conf.5 +++ b/share/man/man5/rc.conf.5 @@ -1639,18 +1639,25 @@ then these are the flags to pass to the daemon. .It Va dumpdev .Pq Vt str -If not set to -.Dq NO -then point kernel crash-dumps at the swap device -specified as -.Em value . -When the system restarts, -a crash-dump found on the specified device -will typically be stored in the -.Pa /var/crash -directory by the +Indicates the device (usually a swap partition) to which a crash dump +should be written in the event of a system crash. +The value of this variable is passed as the argument to +.Xr dumpon 8 . +To disable crash dumps, set this variable to +.Dq NO . +.It Va dumpdir +.Pq Vt str +When the system reboots after a crash and a crash dump is found on the +device specified by the +.Va dumpdev +variable, .Xr savecore 8 -program. +will save that crash dump and a copy of the kernel to the directory +specified by the +.Va dumpdir +variable. +The default value is +.Dq /var/crash . .It Va enable_quotas .Pq Vt bool Set to |
