Re: crash: savecore - saves core dump every day?

2006-03-10 Thread Stefan Drexleri
2006/3/10, Nick Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I'm not entirely sure I understand your question, the subject and the > body of your message don't seem to be completely related. > > However, I think you may find the answers to your questions in >man 8 crash > > Third paragraph (more or less, d

crash: savecore - saves core dump every day?

2006-03-09 Thread Stefan Drexleri
Hi, from the faq: "Upon reboot, savecore(8)will attempt to save the contents of the swap partition to a file in /var/crash" savecore would be called by /etc/rc. So which criterias must be fulfilled to make core dump upon reboot? Does savecore look for special file names at special places? Who mak

Re: fdisk / signature: 0xAA55

2006-03-09 Thread Stefan Drexleri
2006/3/9, Paul de Weerd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > This signature is represented (in binary) as 0b1010101001010101. The > alternating bit pattern was thought to be a protection against certain > failures (drive or controller). > > Of course, this is an i386ism (also present on amd64 I believe). Lots

fdisk / signature: 0xAA55

2006-03-09 Thread Stefan Drexleri
Hi, when installing OpenBSD fdisk utility does extra show selected disk's MBR signature 0xAA55. Why does it do? Do more MBR signatures exist? Or is this only for verification of disk's mbr health? greetings