Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ncar!unmvax!polyslo!steve From: steve@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Steve DeJarnett) Newsgroups: comp.sys.pyramid Subject: Re: how to force a dump? Message-ID: <10838@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> Date: 28 Apr 89 00:37:54 GMT References: <8904272154.AA00226@era.ucar.edu.UCAR.EDU> Reply-To: steve@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Steve DeJarnett) Organization: Lab Rat Rumpus Room -- Cal Poly SLO Lines: 28 In article <8904272154.AA00226@era.ucar.edu.UCAR.EDU> era@NIWOT.UCAR.EDU writes: >Question: is there some way, from one of the COS panels, to coerce >OSx into dropping a core file? Build a kernel with the Kernel debugger installed. To do this, edit your local Kernel configuration file (not conf.c but UCAR or whatever you call it) and add the line debugger Then, when this happens, from the console, type: CTRL-@ This will dump you into the kernel debugger, where you can do things like check which process is running, look at it's call stack, and just about anything else you'd probably ever want to do. One of the notable things you can also do is panic the kernel (from the prompt, type pa (for panic, obviously). Hope that helps. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Steve DeJarnett | Smart Mailers -> steve@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU | | Computer Systems Lab | Dumb Mailers -> ..!ucbvax!voder!polyslo!steve | | Cal Poly State Univ. |------------------------------------------------| | San Luis Obispo, CA 93407 | BITNET = Because Idiots Type NETwork | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------