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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!convex!convex!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!pipex!sunic!isgate!veda.is!adam From: adam@veda.is (Adam David) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: logging crashes Message-ID: <CBE24J.6E@veda.is> Date: 7 Aug 93 12:16:52 GMT Organization: Veda Systems, Iceland Lines: 16 Is there any way to log crashes, I get crashes about twice a day and it would be useful to figure out why. Sometimes it is a bad application that does something wrong, but more often than not there is no obvious cause. I am not at the console, and even if I were there is not enough time to read the crash report in most cases. I have options DIAGNOSTIC defined in the kernel config, but I only have SCSI disks, which apparently means that the kernel cannot dump core and the diagnostic message is lost forever during reboot. Does the wd disk have to be the root disk (with primary swap partition) in order for kernel core dumps to work? or will any wd disk with a partition enabled as swap do the job, even if the primary swap is SCSI? -- adam@veda.is