Dave, i came across one of the Crash TODO list items about having a scripting infrastructure in crash. I was trying to evaluate the Alicia utility [mentioned in todo list]. Here are some of my observations about Alicia. 1] It is a wrapper on top of crash. 2] One can write perl based scripts to extract infromation from dumps. 3] It has a nice report generation functionality which presents the data in text as well as html format. 4] Provides functions which could be used to read data from crash dumps. 5] It is easy to use and effective too. Attached here is a sample script which i tried using Alicia to display block and character devices. [ I know dev command already does this stuff .. but for the sake of trying out the Alicia i chose to write such a script ]. Also encountered few problems while trying out Alicia. 1] On PPC64 arch came across data type overflow problem while executing the attached script. 2] On s390/s390x architecture class function provided by Alicia seems broken. 3] Alicia is a wrapper on top of crash. Other dump solutions [ lkcd ] has sial scripting which is c like and very effective. Not sure how difficult it will be to implement something like sial in crash. Do you have any plans of having scripting infrastructure in crash ? If yes your thoughts on Alicia / sial / < any other stuff >