how to enable linux box to dump crash image on local disk

amit mehta gmate.amit at gmail.com
Wed Aug 17 05:42:22 EDT 2011


On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 3:04 PM, amit mehta <gmate.amit at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've a Linux box which is crashing under a particular test scenario.
> To debug this issue I was thinking of using the crash (man 8 crash)
> utility (available by default on recent releases of RHEL and SuSE) .
> This tool requires the kernel crash dump (vmcore) and the debugging symbols.
> On my machine, I don't see any crash under /var/crash, Hence please
> let me know the
Here
> configuration changes which i need to do to enable my machine to dump
> the kernel image
Here
>
It seems my gmail setup is randomly adding newline character when i
draft a mail.
Which i'm sure is annoying to those who'll read my mail on this
mailing list. Can you please
help me resolve this issue.

-Amit



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