Kdump Automation Mechanism

Jay Lan jlan at sgi.com
Wed Aug 20 16:07:53 EDT 2008


Cai Qian wrote:
> Hi Bernhard and Neil,
> 
> --- Bernhard Walle <bwalle at suse.de> wrote:
> 
>> * Jay Lan [2008-08-14 10:23]:
>>> If you can put vmcore at the same location... Ahh, asking too much? ;)
>> Will change that to /var/crash since that's FHS 2.3 anyway. :)
>> [And I personally never liked “/var/log/dump” since it's not a logfile.]
>>
> 
> That's a good. Do you have any consideration for standard Kdump options? I have created a Kdump
> test suite but it originally written and tested on RHEL and Fedora.
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=20080815.210735.450985660335275199.qcai%40redhat.com

Hi Cai,

I clicked on the attachment of the page above, it failed with:
   File not found on server.

Regards,
 - jay

> 
> I hope it could also work for SLES, OpenSUSE and other distros. However, I have no environment to
> test it yet, and I found it is kind of difficult to port it to other distros for so many different
> options.
> 
> I'd appreciate if you guys could have a look, and come out a standard Kdump options. I'd also be
> happy to modify the suite accordingly.
> 
> Thanks,
> CaiQian
> 
>>
>> Bernhard
>> -- 
>> Bernhard Walle, SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Architecture Development
>>
>> “Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.”
>>        -- Albert Einstein
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