panic reboot of a system

[Kerilyn O'Donnell]

I am running Solaris 2.6 on a Unix machine. When this machine panic reboots it should use the sysetup file in /etc/init.d to create two core files (unix.0 and vmcore.0) in /var/crash.
Now, for some reason when my machine reboots and saves an output of these two files, it is also appending another 'if statement' to the end of the sysetup file.

The following is a copy of the if statement it keeps appending to this file:

if [ ! -d /var/crash/chisys ]
then mkdir -m 0700 -p /var/crash/chisys
fi
echo `checking for crash dump...\c `
savecore /var/crash/chisys
echo ``



So I'm wondering if this is normal? I don't think it's harmfully impacting the system (those core files are still being creating when the box does panic reboots - which is really seldom) but I'm wondering if anyone might know why this is happening.

[harry d brown jr]

You really need to install Solaris 8, as a lot of the problems with crashes have been addressed.


live free or die

harry