[Crash-utility] crashdc : automatic data collection for new vmcores in text format

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello everyone. In a previous life, I was doing Tru64 support and we had a crashdc script that would collect result of a small set of data out of the crash dump to a text file every time a new dump would get created. The advantage of this is to allow a customer to send the basic dump information in a text format to support engineers for a first pass. Dumps are getting big these days and it can take days to get the whole vmcore file. So I took the idea and recreated the mechanism on linux based on crash. It's a small shell script that build a crash command file and feeds it to the crash utility automatically. It can also be invoked manually on existing dumps rather easily. Here is its format : $ ./crashdc -h usage: crashdc [-d level] [-h] [-V] [-x /path/to/crash/exe] /path/to/namelist /path/to/vmcore /path/to/output/directory I'm relying on existing kdump mechanism to automate the collection of data whenever a new vmcore is generated. Right now, I have it working on RHEL5, close to be working on SLES11 and not working on SLES10. But this is not why I'm telling you all this. I am coming to you to know if there would be some interest in including those scripts into the crash-utility rpm. I'm ready to package it myself and to give those scripts their own home, but since the unavoidable dependency is to have crash present, I was thinking that it might be better to have it included with crash. Right now, here is what is included : - /usr/bin/crashdc - /usr/bin/run-crashdc-rhel.sh - /usr/bin/run-crashdc-sles.sh - /usr/bin/run-crashdc-sles11.sh - /usr/share/man/man8/crashdc.8 I would like to have your opinion and comments on this suggestion, and on the value of having such a script available for general use. Kind Regards, - -- Louis Bouchard, Linux Support Engineer Team lead, EMEA Linux Competency Center, Linux Ambassador, HP HP Services 1 Ave du Canada HP France Z.A. de Courtaboeuf louis.bouchard(a)hp.com 91 947 Les Ulis http://www.hp.com/go/linux France http://www.hp.com/fr