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IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 20.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 21.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 22.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 23.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 24.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 25.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 26.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 27.\" 28.\" From: @(#)savecore.8 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/5/93 29.\" $FreeBSD$ 30.\" 31.Dd December 1, 2015 32.Dt SAVECORE 8 33.Os 34.Sh NAME 35.Nm savecore 36.Nd "save a core dump of the operating system" 37.Sh SYNOPSIS 38.Nm 39.Fl c 40.Op Fl v 41.Op Ar device ... 42.Nm 43.Fl C 44.Op Fl v 45.Op Ar device ... 46.Nm 47.Op Fl -libxo 48.Op Fl fkvz 49.Op Fl m Ar maxdumps 50.Op Ar directory Op Ar device ... 51.Sh DESCRIPTION 52The 53.Nm 54utility 55copies a core dump into 56.Ar directory , 57or the current working directory if no 58.Ar directory 59argument is given, 60and enters a reboot message and information about the core dump into 61the system log. 62.Pp 63The options are as follows: 64.Bl -tag -width ".Fl m Ar maxdumps" 65.It Fl -libxo 66Generate output via 67.Xr libxo 3 68in a selection of different human and machine readable formats. 69See 70.Xr xo_parse_args 3 71for details on command line arguments. 72.It Fl C 73Check to see if a dump exists, 74and display a brief message to indicate the status. 75An exit status of 0 indicates that a dump is there, 761 indicates that none exists. 77This option is compatible only with the 78.Op Fl v 79option. 80.It Fl c 81Clear the dump, so that future invocations of 82.Nm 83will ignore it. 84.It Fl f 85Force a dump to be taken even if either the dump was cleared or if the 86dump header information is inconsistent. 87.It Fl k 88Do not clear the dump after saving it. 89.It Fl m Ar maxdumps 90Maximum number of dumps to store. 91Once the number of stored dumps is equal to 92.Ar maxdumps 93the counter will restart from 94.Dv 0 . 95.It Fl v 96Print out some additional debugging information. 97Specify twice for more information. 98.It Fl z 99Compress the core dump and kernel (see 100.Xr gzip 1 ) . 101.El 102.Pp 103The 104.Nm 105utility 106looks for dumps on each device specified by the 107.Ar device 108argument(s), or on each device in 109.Pa /etc/fstab 110marked as 111.Dq dump 112or 113.Dq swap . 114The 115.Nm 116utility 117checks the core dump in various ways to make sure that it is complete. 118If it passes these checks, it saves the core image in 119.Ar directory Ns Pa /vmcore.# 120and information about the core in 121.Ar directory Ns Pa /info.# . 122For kernel textdumps generated with the 123.Xr textdump 4 124facility, output will be stored in the 125.Xr tar 5 126format and named 127.Ar directory Ns Pa /textdump.tar.# . 128The 129.Dq # 130is the number from the first line of the file 131.Ar directory Ns Pa /bounds , 132and it is incremented and stored back into the file each time 133.Nm 134successfully runs. 135.Pp 136The 137.Nm 138utility 139also checks the available disk space before attempting to make the copies. 140If there is insufficient disk space in the file system containing 141.Ar directory , 142or if the file 143.Ar directory Ns Pa /minfree 144exists and the number of free kilobytes (for non-superusers) in the 145file system after the copies were made would be less than the number 146in the first line of this file, the copies are not attempted. 147.Pp 148If 149.Nm 150successfully copies the kernel and the core dump, the core dump is cleared 151so that future invocations of 152.Nm 153will ignore it. 154.Pp 155The 156.Nm 157utility 158is meant to be called near the end of the initialization file 159.Pa /etc/rc 160(see 161.Xr rc 8 ) . 162.Sh SEE ALSO 163.Xr gzip 1 , 164.Xr getbootfile 3 , 165.Xr libxo 3 , 166.Xr xo_parse_args 3 , 167.Xr textdump 4 , 168.Xr tar 5 , 169.Xr dumpon 8 , 170.Xr syslogd 8 171.Sh HISTORY 172The 173.Nm 174utility appeared in 175.Bx 4.1 . 176.Pp 177Support for kernel textdumps appeared in 178.Fx 7.1 . 179.Sh BUGS 180The minfree code does not consider the effect of compression or sparse files. 181