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 configuration changes which i need to do to enable my machine to dump the kernel image locally (do i need to apply diskdump patches and rebuild the kernel??) whenever there is a kernel crash. Kdump seem to be another tool for this job but that requires a lot of setup. Is there a *shortcut* to enable kernel crash dump facility ? The debugging symbols can be found here: http://ftp.riken.go.jp/Linux/slc/slc6X/updates/x86_64/debug/ http://ftp.riken.go.jp/Linux/slc/slc6X/updates/i386/debug/ -Amit