No man page for kdump (yet?)

Xunlei Pang xpang at redhat.com
Wed Apr 12 18:52:17 PDT 2017


On 04/11/2017 at 05:26 AM, Philip Prindeville wrote:
>> On Apr 10, 2017, at 5:57 AM, Bhupesh Sharma <bhsharma at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> It seems the latest upstream kexec-tools does support a complete man
>> page for kdump yet:
>>
>> DESCRIPTION
>>       kdump does not have a man page yet.
>>
>> I would propose having a propose having a man page for kdump (as the
>> feature is quite useful and has matured over time).
>>
>> I can work to cook up a patch for the same.
>>
>> Please let me know if this makes sense or if there are any objections
>> to the same.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Bhupesh
>
> Personally I’d welcome one.

This tool(/usr/sbin/kdump) looks like "cp /proc/vmcore" under kdump,
does anyone know its existent/potential users?

Regards,
Xunlei

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