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Re: disabling lkcd

To: Thomas Graichen <graichen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: disabling lkcd
From: "Matt D. Robinson" <yakker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 08:58:21 -0800
Cc: lkcd@xxxxxxxxxxx
Organization: Alacritech, Inc.
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Thomas Graichen wrote:
> 
> is there an easy way to disable lkcd dumping hte kernel image on
> panic? - i ask because if you have kdb and lkcd in the kernel you
> may want to choose which one should react on a panic (depending
> on if you are sitting in front of the system - kdb - or the system
> is running somethere remotely and crashes - lkcd) ... i think
> something like
> 
>   /proc/sys/vmdump/active

Edit /etc/sysconfig/vmdump, and change DUMP_ACTIVE from 1 to 0.
The information about DUMP_ACTIVE is documented in that file.
There are a few other tunables as well.

Good guess ... :)

--Matt

> with either 1 or 0 (which might also be used from the vmdump script
> to activate it) would be nice ... or can i disable it also easily
> after i enabled it via vmdump config?
> 
> thanks in advance
> 
> t
> 
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> thomas.graichen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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