SAVECORE(8) GENIX Programmer's Manual SAVECORE(8)
NAME
savecore - save a core dump of the operating system
SYNOPSIS
savecore dirname
DESCRIPTION
Savecore is meant to be called at the end of the /etc/rc file. Its
function is to save the core dump of the system (assuming one was
made) and to write a reboot message in the shutdown log.
Savecore checks the core dump to be certain it corresponds with the
current running unix. If it does it saves the core image in the
file dirname/vmcore.n and it's brother, the namelist,
dirname/vmunix.n The trailing ".n" in the pathnames is replaced by a
number which grows every time savecore is run in that directory.
Before savecore writes out a core image, it reads a number from the
file dirname/minfree. If there are fewer free blocks on the
filesystem which contains dirname than the number obtained from the
minfree file, the core dump is not done. If the minfree file does
not exist, savecore always writes out the core file (assuming that a
core dump was taken).
Savecore also writes a reboot message in the shut down log. If the
system crashed as a result of a panic, savecore records the panic
string in the shut down log too.
FILES
/usr/adm/shutdownlog Shut down log
/vmunix Current UNIX
BUGS
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