How to Enable Crash Dump Files

1. Be sure you have completed any required tasks identified in Table 69-1.

2. Become superuser.

3. Using the editor of your choice, edit the /etc/init.d/sysetup file, activating the lines that enable the crash dumps by deleting the comment marks (#) from the beginning of those lines.

4. Exit the file, saving the changes.

Example--Enabling Crash Dump Files

The following example shows the appropriate section of the /etc/init.d/sysetup file that has been edited to enable crash dumps.

##
## Default is to not do a savecore
##
If [ ! -d /var/crash/`uname -n` ]
then mkdir -m 0700 -p /var/crash/`uname -n`
fi
     echo 'checking for crash dump...\c '
savecore /var/crash/`uname -n`
     echo ''