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The immediate purpose for this option is to use it in rc.d so that we can make savecore behavior conditional. Tremendous assistance with ideas and sanity checking provided by tjr and b@etek.chalmers.se.
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.\" From: @(#)savecore.8 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/5/93
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.\"
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.Dd September 23, 1994
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.Dt SAVECORE 8
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm savecore
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.Nd "save a core dump of the operating system"
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Nm
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.Fl c
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.Nm
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.Fl C
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.Op Fl v
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.Op Ar directory device
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.Nm
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.Op Fl fkvz
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.Op Ar directory Op Ar device ...
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Nm
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utility
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copies a core dump into
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.Ar directory ,
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or the current working directory if no
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.Ar directory
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argument is given,
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and enters a reboot message and information about the core dump into
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the system log.
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.Pp
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The options are as follows:
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.Bl -tag -width indent
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.It Fl C
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Check to see if a dump exists,
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and display a brief message to indicate the status.
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An exit status of 0 indicates that a dump is there,
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1 indicates that none exists.
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This option is compatible only with the
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.Op Fl v
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option.
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.It Fl c
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Clear the dump, so that future invocations of
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.Nm
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will ignore it.
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.It Fl f
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Force a dump to be taken even if the dump was cleared.
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.It Fl k
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Do not clear the dump after saving it.
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.It Fl v
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Print out some additional debugging information.
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.It Fl z
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Compress the core dump and kernel (see
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.Xr gzip 1 ) .
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.El
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.Pp
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The
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.Nm
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utility
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looks for dumps on each device specified by the
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.Ar device
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argument(s), or on each device in
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.Pa /etc/fstab
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marked as
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.Dq dump
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or
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.Dq swap .
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The
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.Nm
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utility
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checks the core dump in various ways to make sure that it is complete.
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If it passes these checks, it saves the core image in
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.Ar directory Ns Pa /vmcore.#
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and information about the core in
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.Ar directory Ns Pa /info.#
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The ``#'' is the number from the first line of the file
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.Ar directory Ns Pa /bounds ,
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and it is incremented and stored back into the file each time
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.Nm
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successfully runs.
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.Pp
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The
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.Nm
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utility
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also checks the available disk space before attempting to make the copies.
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If there is insufficient disk space in the file system containing
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.Ar directory ,
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or if the file
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.Ar directory Ns Pa /minfree
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exists and the number of free kilobytes (for non-superusers) in the
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file system after the copies were made would be less than the number
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in the first line of this file, the copies are not attempted.
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.Pp
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If
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.Nm
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successfully copies the kernel and the core dump, the core dump is cleared
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so that future invocations of
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.Nm
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will ignore it.
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.Pp
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The
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.Nm
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utility
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is meant to be called near the end of the initialization file
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.Pa /etc/rc
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(see
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.Xr rc 8 ) .
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.Sh BUGS
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The minfree code does not consider the effect of compression or sparse files.
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr gzip 1 ,
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.Xr getbootfile 3 ,
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.Xr dumpon 8 ,
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.Xr syslogd 8
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.Sh HISTORY
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The
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.Nm
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utility appeared in
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.Bx 4.1 .
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