Re: How to take a crash dump

Erik Mouw
2002-01-14T21:16:32Z

On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 02:30:20PM +0530, SATHISH.J 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)?

I wrote a toy module that does exactly what you want:

http://www.lart.tudelft.nl/lartware/port/lart.c

I still have to get the module into Linus' tree so Christoph Hellwig
will drive to .nl to buy me a beer :)

Erik

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