Kdump Automation Mechanism

[Cai Qian]

Hi Jay,

From: Jay Lan <jlan at sgi.com>
Subject: Re: Kdump Automation Mechanism
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:07:53 -0700

> 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.
> 

Then, please find it at,

http://people.redhat.com/qcai/kdump-ng-1.0.tar.gz

Thanks,
CaiQian

> 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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