Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!virtech!cpcahil
From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Getting rid of 'There may be a dump' pause
Message-ID: <1990Jun13.114658.10194@virtech.uucp>
Date: 13 Jun 90 11:46:58 GMT
References: <5887@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Reply-To: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc., Sterling VA
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In article <5887@sugar.hackercorp.com> karl@sugar.hackercorp.com (Karl Lehenbauer) writes:
>
>(It's maddening because your system sits there waiting for you to physically
>type into the keyboard to tell it not to dump the nonexistent dump.  Meanwhile
>your system does nothing.)
>
>It's a shell script in /etc called dumpsave.
>
>Just make dumpsave do an 'exit 0' before it asks the question.

Instead of using an exit 0, why not set up a timeout with the following:

	(sleep 10; kill $$) &

So that you have a 10 second chance to save the dump if there really is
one.


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