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From: hack@bellboy.UUCP (Greg Hackney)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: Microport 386 system administration
Keywords: A couple of questions
Message-ID: <1098@bellboy.UUCP>
Date: 12 Jun 88 03:35:14 GMT
References: <1092@bellboy.UUCP> <1794@van-bc.UUCP>
Reply-To: hack@bellboy.UUCP (Greg Hackney)
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In article <1794@van-bc.UUCP> sl@van-bc.UUCP (pri=-10 Stuart Lynne) writes:
>In article <1092@bellboy.UUCP> hack@bellboy.UUCP (Greg Hackney) writes:
>>
>>Could anyone help with a couple of questions I have
>>on Microport 386.... 
>
>>1. The system is set up to autoboot. If there is a power failure,
>>   the system boots to a point, then asks if I want to save a
>>   core image. Where do I disable that so it will boot all the
>>   way by itself?
>
>I havn't got Microport up right now or I'd check the exact details, but if
>you scrummage around in /etc, with special attention to the system
>initialization scripts you should see where it's calling the program to do
>this check. As I remember you can simply comment it out. 

I thought I had done a good job in looking for the obvious,
but per the attached email I got, it was right there under
my nose. Thanks Bryan.
--
Greg


  From: bryan@award.UUCP (Bryan Richter)

  The file is /etc/dumpsave, and if you look in the first while loop you
  will find the infamous question of whether or not to save the dump image.
  Inside of that while loop I placed an echo of a message to the effect 
  'not saving dump image' to remind myself, and then did an 'exit 0'.  
  We have not had any problems with this so far and We have had a couple
  of power failures since I changed the script.

  good luck 
  --bryan