need some details for troubleshooting purpose

[siva baskaran]

dears,

i would like to know abt /var/tombstoms log file in which we can find out lot of binary information what is that, by that how can we findout harware problem is there any software or formula or any techinc for make that human readable and as well ts98,99 etc.... file contains binary format information , how can read that mesage

thanks
siva

[Rick Garland]

If I am reading your message correctly, the ts files are not binary. But they do contain hardware/chassis messages that are in a syntax that is not easily readable unless you have the translations

[A. Clay Stephenson]

The data are binary but you can use q4 to analyze the dump. The q4 utility is available via ftp under the "crash" directory at
hprc.external.hp.com user: contrib passwd: 9unsupp8

[A. Clay Stephenson]

In general, it's better not to have savecrash configured and have separate dump and swap areas. This avoids the time required to compress and save the crash dump in /var/adm/crash. On critical systems, the extra time required during the reboot is often much more valuable than the
disk space and moreover dump and swap really have nothing to do with each other.

Crashes on production systems should be extremely rare and I have literally not had one in years.

[Andrew Merritt_2]

As Rick says, the ts files in /var/tombstones are text files which contain information about the last reboot of the system. This should have information about any HPMC if that is what caused the system to reboot. The presence of the file does not indicate a problem.

Can you give an example of why you think these are binary files?

If you are talking about something different, please can you make it clear what you mean.

A Clay is talking about something completely different.

Andrew