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From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: How to skip past "image in swap device" when rebooting?
Message-ID: <1990Aug29.232554.4168@virtech.uucp>
Date: 29 Aug 90 23:25:54 GMT
References: <1990Aug28.181142.11251@techbook.com>
Reply-To: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc., Sterling VA
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In article <1990Aug28.181142.11251@techbook.com> jamesd@techbook.com (James Deibele) writes:
>answer "y" or "n".  It wants to know whether I want to save the "image in the
>swap device" (this happened again this morning, and I should have written down
>the exact wording, but didn't).  
>
>For the forseeable future, the answer is always going to be no, but I'd be 
>happy to answer yes (and manually delete the file) if it would just get past


If you look in the begining /etc/bcheckrc, there is a call to /etc/dumpsave.
If you comment this line out, you won't be asked.


Or you could make the following modification to /etc/dumpsave:

Old:

	echo 'There may be a system dump memory image in the swap device.'
	while :
	do
		echo 'Do you want to save it? (y/n)> \c'
		read ans
		case $ans in
		  y )   break ;;
		  n )   exit 0 ;;
		esac
		echo '???'
	done

New:

	echo 'There may be a system dump memory image in the swap device.'
-->	(sleep 60; kill $$)&
	while :
	do
		echo 'Do you want to save it? (y/n)> \c'
		read ans
		case $ans in
		  y )   break ;;
		  n )   exit 0 ;;
		esac
		echo '???'
	done

-->	trap "" 15


The first line sets up a second shell that will send a signal to this one after
60 seconds.  The second line tells the shell to ignore signal 15 (default
signal from kill).  If the user types in an answer, the trap will be executed.

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