HI,
While reading book "Panic! UNIX® System Crash Dump Analysis" , read
following text

"If you want to specify a separate dump device, you will need to modify
a kernel configuration file, config and make a new kernel, and boot up
the new kernel. Please refer to the appropriate System Administrator's
manual for guidance if you aren't already familiar with the procedure
to build a new kernel."

is it possible to recompile solaris kernel like linux ?

- Thanks for your time

"ravi" <big2all@gmail.com> writes:

>While reading book "Panic! UNIX=AE System Crash Dump Analysis" , read
>following text

>"If you want to specify a separate dump device, you will need to modify
>a kernel configuration file, config and make a new kernel, and boot up
>the new kernel. Please refer to the appropriate System Administrator's
>manual for guidance if you aren't already familiar with the procedure
>to build a new kernel."

This part of the book must refer to SunOS 4.x not Solaris 2+(on SunOS 5.x)

>is it possible to recompile solaris kernel like linux ?

There's no need; in recent Solaris systems, you run the "dumpadm"
command to specify a new dump device.

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Statements on Sun products included here are not gospel and may
be fiction rather than truth.

Hi,
"There's no need; in recent Solaris systems, you run the "dumpadm" "
mean it is not possible to compile or is there any way ?

"ravi" <big2all@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
> "There's no need; in recent Solaris systems, you run the "dumpadm" "
> mean it is not possible to compile or is there any way ?

I'll say you'll need the sources to compile it. Or at least .o files like
SunOS and some other OSes did. But, since most of the stuff is loaded
using modules (similar to what you have in Linux), there is no need to
recompile the kernel. Most of the stuff can be changed via configuration
files anyway (/etc/system, /kernel/drv/*.conf etc etc etc).

At least, this is my interpretation of all this.

Dragan

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You can't recompile Solaris (SunOs 5*). (not until next week
anyway when opensolaris should be available)

ravi wrote:
> Hi,
> "There's no need; in recent Solaris systems, you run the "dumpadm" "
> mean it is not possible to compile or is there any way ?
>

On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, ravi wrote:

> Hi,
> "There's no need; in recent Solaris systems, you run the "dumpadm" "
> mean it is not possible to compile or is there any way ?

It will be possible when OpenSolaris goes live, in the next week or so...

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* ravi wrote:
> Hi,
> "There's no need; in recent Solaris systems, you run the "dumpadm" "
> mean it is not possible to compile or is there any way ?

One think it means is that having to recompile to change the dump
device is the most appalling hack, which solaris does not require.

--tim

ravi wrote:

> is it possible to recompile solaris kernel like linux ?

It is neither necessary nor possible to recompile the Solaris kernel.

Rich Teer wrote:

> It will be possible when OpenSolaris goes live, in the next week or so...

But even then it will be unnecessary after the first build, at the very
least in the Linux sense OP is referring to.

On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, UNIX admin wrote:

> It is neither necessary nor possible to recompile the Solaris kernel.

The first is true, but the second won't be true for much longer...

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Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member

President,
Rite Online Inc.

Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638
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