[Sunhelp] Saving core files

[Brian Allgyer]

jkennedy at orent.com wrote:

> OK, stupid question but I haven't done this in over a year and a half.
> For the life of me I cannot remember how to set a system up to
> automatically save core file safter a crash.  Has anyone done this
> recently (Solaris 2.6 or 7)???
> Thanks,
> John Kennedy
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Add this to /etc/rc2.d/S20sysetup file:


##
## Default is to not do a savecore
##
if [ ! -d /var/`uname -n` ]
then mkdir -m 0700 -p /var/`uname -n`
fi
                echo 'checking for crash dump...\c '
savecore /var/`uname -n`
                e0ho ''



Brian