postmort(1) [minix man page]

POSTMORT(1)						      General Commands Manual						       POSTMORT(1)

NAME

       postmort - perform post-mortem on PC Minix core files

SYNOPSIS

       postmort [-dpt] -c corefile -s symbfile

OPTIONS

       -c     Use the named corefile

       -d     Dump all text symbols and segment data

       -p     Display the kernel process table

       -s     Use the named symbol file

       -t     Display a stack backtrace

EXAMPLES

       postmort 	   # display the data from the file 'core'

DESCRIPTION

       Postmort  does  a simple static analysis of a PC Minix core file; By default, it looks for the file 'core' in the local directory and loads
       that for analysis; it also searches for the file 'symbol.out', and if that fails 'a.out', expecting them to contain symbol information  for
       the core file.  It is not a fatal error if the symbol files don't exist.

       The  stack  backtrace  is  slightly tricky, and may go on longer than is really justified, since there's no easy way for it to know when to
       stop.  Treat its results with caution.

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CRASHINFO(8)						    BSD System Manager's Manual 					      CRASHINFO(8)

NAME

     crashinfo -- analyze a core dump of the operating system

SYNOPSIS

     crashinfo [-d crashdir] [-n dumpnr] [-k kernel] [core]

DESCRIPTION

     The crashinfo utility analyzes a core dump saved by savecore(8).  It generates a text file containing the analysis in the same directory as
     the core dump.  For a given core dump file named vmcore.XX the generated text file will be named core.txt.XX.

     By default, crashinfo analyzes the most recent core dump in the core dump directory.  A specific core dump may be specified via either the
     core or dumpnr arguments.	Once crashinfo has located a core dump, it analyzes the core dump to determine the exact version of the kernel
     that generated the core.  It then looks for a matching kernel file under each of the subdirectories in /boot.  The location of the kernel
     file can also be explicitly provided via the kernel argument.

     Once crashinfo has located a core dump and kernel, it uses several utilities to analyze the core including dmesg(8), fstat(1), iostat(8),
     ipcs(1), kgdb(1), netstat(1), nfsstat(1), ps(1), pstat(8), and vmstat(8).

     The options are as follows:

     -d crashdir
	     Specify an alternate core dump directory.	The default crash dump directory is /var/crash.

     -n dumpnr
	     Use the core dump saved in vmcore.dumpnr instead of the latest core in the core dump directory.

     -k kernel
	     Specify an explicit kernel file.

SEE ALSO

     textdump(4), savecore(8)

HISTORY

     The crashinfo utility appeared in FreeBSD 6.4.

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