NAME

errdead − extract error records from dump

SYNOPSIS

/etc/errdead dumpfile [ namelist ]

DESCRIPTION

When hardware errors are detected by the system, an error record that contains information pertinent to the error is generated.  If the error-logging daemon errdemon(1M) is not active or if the system crashes before the record can be placed in the error file, the error information is held by the system in a local buffer. Errdead examines a system dump (or memory), extracts such error records, and passes them to errpt(1M) for analysis.

The dumpfile specifies the file (or memory) that is to be examined.  The system namelist is specified by namelist; if not given, /unix is used. 

FILES

/unixsystem namelist
/usr/bin/errptanalysis program
/usr/tmp/errXXXXXXtemporary file

DIAGNOSTICS

Diagnostics may come from either errdead or errpt. In either case, they are intended to be self-explanatory.

SEE ALSO

errdemon(1M), errpt(1M). 

May 16, 1980