[Crash-utility] The problems when running SuSE 12 on VirtualBox

[Dave Anderson]

----- Original Message -----

> > (1) There are so may warnings like this:
> > 
> > crash: xxxxxx: original filename unknown
> >   Use "-f xxxxxx" on command line to prevent this message.
> > 
> > Do I need to add somay "-f xxxxxx" options on command line? Is there
> > any better method?
> 
> The message above simply mean that the original filename of the compressed
> file was not stored in the file's header.  That means that whoever created
> the compressed file used "gzip -n" or "--no-name":
> 
>   $ man gzip
>   ... [ cut ] ...
> 
>      -n --no-name
>           When  compressing,  do not save the original file name and time
>           stamp by default. (The original name is always saved if the name
>           had to be truncated.) When decompressing, do not restore the
>           original file name if present (remove only the gzip suffix from
>           the compressed file name) and do not restore the original time
>           stamp
>           if present (copy it from the compressed file). This option is the
>           default when decompressing.
>   ...

I should also add that you do *not* need to add "-f xxxxx" options.  They are
harmless, information-only messages.  

Dave