Kdump from diskdumputils package

[shrek-m at gmx.de]

On 08.03.2006 20:55, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:

>Question: What is kdump.  Plain language please - I read the
>technical jargon but still do not know why it is in FC5-T3 and
>what purpose it serves.
>

good question,
what i have learned now is that
kexec-tools (your question) is not available for ppc*
and  lam provides  kdump  too.

kexec-tools  =  /sbin/kdump
lam  =  /usr/bin/kdump


$ rpm -qlp --nosignature 
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/i386/Fedora/RPMS/lam-7.1.1-11.i386.rpm 
| grep kdump
/usr/bin/kdump
/usr/share/lam/bin/kdump


$ rpm -qlp --nosignature 
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/i386/Fedora/RPMS/kexec-tools-1.101-14.i386.rpm 
| grep kdump
/etc/rc.d/init.d/kdump
/etc/sysconfig/kdump
/sbin/kdump

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shrek-m