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From: mike@BRL.ARPA
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Subject: Re:  savecore
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Date: Wed, 4-Feb-87 17:45:00 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb  4 17:45:00 1987
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Alas, the BSD SAVECORE program has nothing to do with normal "core"
files that the kernel writes for you.  Thus, altering the coredumplimit
on your root shell is unrelated.  SAVECORE is a program run
by /etc/rc or /etc/rc.local at reboot time, to copy the crash dump
from swap space (eg, hp0b) into a normal UNIX file in /dirname/crash
(where dirname is the first arg to savecore).

The file dirname/minfree indicates how much space the filesystem
must have for savecore to start, to keep a sick machine from filling
the disk with kernel core dumps.
	-Mike