Re: Oops assist...

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 4 May 1999 20:35:38 +0100 (BST)


> There have been several comments about how to accurately catch an
> oops, since it isn't written out to any file on disk. It just occurred
> to me that one useful way would be to make use of the /proc filesystem
> for this.

If you have a syslogk running the Oops should end up on disk (unless of course
the machine crashes or tht disk subsystem dies). For example I get mine
logged in /var/log/messages, and my USB test box has quite a collection
from my experiments.

Even more ideal would be to dump the oops to somewhere non volatile over
a reboot. I'm not sure there are good candidates for this on a PC.

Alan

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