Thanks for your answers. The best would be, to use the man pages if needed. For now, my main question is answered - all other things will come from alone.
>> And -- even if you do have a system panic, very often developers can >> make sense out of what went wrong from the output of the debugger's >> trace and ps commands, rather than having to dig through an entire core >> dump. This is always what they ask for FIRST. > > Exactly. > So how do you extract this information from a modern laptop without > serial? Your question is true. But let's stop this on this point because it will end in argue or a flame. I forgot in the OP to tell, that the ThinkPad has no serial port.
