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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?
--
getting out of bed in the morning is an act of false confidence
- jules feifer
to email me, delete blackhole. from my return address

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

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.


--
getting out of bed in the morning is an act of false confidence
- jules feifer
to email me, delete blackhole. from my return address

awouk@blackhole.nyx.net (arthur wouk) writes:

>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?

Well, apparently your system panic'ed again recently
and there's still a coredump on swap.

You can remove the files and then rrun "savecore" to save
the last dump captured.

Kernel cores point to some problem in your sytsem and are
worth examining; of course, 2.5 years old core dumps
might not provide a lot of valuable insight.


Casper
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