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From: "Patrick O'Rourke" <porourke@egenera.com>
To: Simon Turvey <turveysp@ntlworld.com>
Cc: "SATHISH.J" <sathish.j@tatainfotech.com>,
	kernelnewbies <kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: How to take a crash dump
Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2002 10:36:54 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C35CC16.3030408@egenera.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10201041427001.2221-100000@blrmail> <001e01c19508$ee319b70$140ba8c0@mistral>

Simon Turvey wrote:

>>I have "lcrash" installed on my system. I have 2.4.8 kernel. I would like

>>to know how to make a linux system panic so that I can take a crash dump
>>and analyse using "lcrash". Is there any command to make the system panis
>>as we have on other unices(SVR4 and unixware)?


You can use Mission Critical Linux's crash dump analyser (aka crash) on
a live system and force it to panic via the "sys -panic" command.

The lkcd patch also adds an "alt-sysrq c" command that will force a dump.

Pat

-- 
Patrick O'Rourke
porourke@egenera.com


  reply	other threads:[~2002-01-04 15:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-01-04  9:00 How to take a crash dump SATHISH.J
2002-01-04 10:16 ` Simon Turvey
2002-01-04 15:36   ` Patrick O'Rourke [this message]
2002-01-14 21:14 ` Erik Mouw
2002-01-15 22:05   ` Suparna Bhattacharya

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