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From: root on khavrinen <root@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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Subject: Recent changes broke dumpon(8)
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>Number:         868
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       Recent changes broke dumpon(8)
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Dec  5 09:40:05 PST 1995
>Closed-Date:    Wed Dec 6 01:11:09 PST 1995
>Last-Modified:  Wed Dec  6 22:30:02 PST 1995
>Originator:     root on khavrinen
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386
>Organization:
MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
>Environment:

	-current as of 5 December 1995 at 0900 UTC

>Description:

	dumpon doesn't work.

>How-To-Repeat:

	root@khavrinen(1)# dumpon /dev/wd1b
	dumpon: sysctl: kern.dumpdev: No such file or directory

>Fix:
	
	Cut off Poul-Henning's head.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: peter 
State-Changed-When: Wed Dec 6 01:11:09 PST 1995 
State-Changed-Why:  
A workaround patch has been applied. There may be a better 
fix in the works... 

From: Faried Nawaz <fn@pain.csrv.uidaho.edu>
To: root@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: kern/868: Recent changes broke dumpon(8) 
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 1995 22:22:01 -0800

 root on khavrinen wrote...
 
    >Environment:
    
    	-current as of 5 December 1995 at 0900 UTC
    
    >Description:
    
    	dumpon doesn't work.
    
    >How-To-Repeat:
    
    	root@khavrinen(1)# dumpon /dev/wd1b
    	dumpon: sysctl: kern.dumpdev: No such file or directory
 
 works for me.  i sup'd sys around 5-6PM PST8PDT Dec 6th.
 
 i'm not setting any dump-related options in my kernel config; i just
 use dumpon in /etc/rc*.
 
 
>Unformatted:
