How to Create a Crash Dump Directory

1. Become superuser.

2. Create the /var/crash directory.

   # mkdir /var/crash

3. Change to the /var/crash directory.

   # cd /var/crash

4. Create a directory with the name of the system.

   # mkdir system-name

   system-name

   The system for which you want to save crash dump files.

5. Verify the directory has been created.

   # ls system-name

Example--Creating a Directory to Save Crash Dump Files

The following example shows how to create a directory to save crash dump files for the system saturn.

# mkdir /var/crash
# cd /var/crash
# mkdir saturn
# ls
 saturn