In article <H_j7d.13110$Qv5.6560@newssvr33.news.prodigy.com >,
Raf LaPietra <raf@news.lapietra.org> wrote:
:In article <735938268.97065@irys.nyx.net>,
:arthur wouk <awouk@blackhole.nyx.net> wrote:
:>a power outage yesterday started a reboot on a sparc2 running solaris
:>7. during the reboot is was told that core found no room in
:>/var/crash/localhost.
:>oafter the boot completed i found the following there:
:>
:>total 76386
:>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2 Feb 6 2002 bounds
:>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 343937 Feb 3 2002 unix.0
:>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 344934 Feb 6 2002 unix.1
:>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19660800 Feb 3 2002 vmcore.0
:>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18853888 Feb 6 2002 vmcore.1
:>
:>i don't remember what happened in february! is there any reason
:>why i would want to keep any these files?
:
:Only if you wanted to see why your machine chrashed more than 2 1/2 years ago
:
:Of course if it hasn't happened since then, why worry about it.
:
:-Raf

probably all later crashes just weren't recorded. since power is
sometimes iffy here in fly-over country (those damned squirrels can
get in everywhere and get toasted), i guess i should clean the
directory out in case there is a machine-caused crisis.


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