Re: savecore vs /var/run/rc.log

[Steven Bellovin <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

On Jan 1, 2010, at 8:32 AM, Paul Goyette wrote:

> Is it really necessary for savecore to do its progress/countdown thing?

Yes, to show that it's really doing something.
> 
> I just got a crash on a machine with 6GB of RAM, and the resulting 
> /var/run/rc.log file has one humungous line of
> 
>        6143 M^M 6142 M^M 6141 M^M 6140 M^M 6139 M^M 6138 M^M...
> 
> that just goes on forever!  It took vi a couple of minutes to just open the 
> log file!

Having it appear in the log file is another matter...

                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb