----- "Louis Bouchard" <louis.bouchard@xxxxxx> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello everyone. > > In a previous life, I was doing Tru64 support and we had a crashdc > script that would collect result of a small set of data out of the crash > dump to a text file every time a new dump would get created. The > advantage of this is to allow a customer to send the basic dump > information in a text format to support engineers for a first pass. > Dumps are getting big these days and it can take days to get the whole > vmcore file. > > So I took the idea and recreated the mechanism on linux based on crash. > It's a small shell script that build a crash command file and feeds it > to the crash utility automatically. It can also be invoked manually on > existing dumps rather easily. Here is its format : > > $ ./crashdc -h > usage: crashdc [-d level] [-h] [-V] [-x /path/to/crash/exe] > /path/to/namelist /path/to/vmcore /path/to/output/directory > > I'm relying on existing kdump mechanism to automate the collection of > data whenever a new vmcore is generated. Right now, I have it working > on RHEL5, close to be working on SLES11 and not working on SLES10. But > this is not why I'm telling you all this. > > I am coming to you to know if there would be some interest in including > those scripts into the crash-utility rpm. I'm ready to package it > myself and to give those scripts their own home, but since the > unavoidable dependency is to have crash present, I was thinking that it > might be better to have it included with crash. > > Right now, here is what is included : > > - /usr/bin/crashdc > - /usr/bin/run-crashdc-rhel.sh > - /usr/bin/run-crashdc-sles.sh > - /usr/bin/run-crashdc-sles11.sh > - /usr/share/man/man8/crashdc.8 > > I would like to have your opinion and comments on this suggestion, and > on the value of having such a script available for general use. Is /usr/bin/crashdc itself a shell script? Dave -- Crash-utility mailing list Crash-utility@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/crash-utility