[SunHELP] /var/crash question

[Scanlan, Brian (5188)]

Action 1 when you suffer from a hardware crash: Log a call with
precautionary call with Sun. Sun engineer will go through the crash 
procudure with you.It's useful to have a call open so it takes a shorter
period of time to get 
your CPU replaced / memory replaced if you've got a hardware problem etc.
 
It usually involves two scripts from Sunsolve, both extremely useful.
 
1. Explorer
 
Sun package that collects all useful information about your system,
summarises into a tar file.
 
2. iscda.sh
 
You run iscda on the crash dump, it summarises useful information. 
http://sunsolve.sun.co
<http://sunsolve.sun.com/private-cgi/show.pl?target=resources/tools>
m/private-cgi/show.pl?target=resources/tools
 
If you really want, send me the iscda output within the next half hour and
I'll take a look at it
immediately.
 
The file in /var/crash is a core dump (memory dump of your system when the
crash happened).
 
Brian.

-----Original Message-----
From: Adams, Christopher [ mailto:CAdams at starbase.com
<mailto:CAdams at starbase.com> ]
Sent: 10 January 2001 16:43
To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org <mailto:sunhelp at sunhelp.org> 
Subject: [SunHELP] /var/crash question



I have one of my servers that is running Oracle 8.1.5 and for the past two
days the Solaris 7 E450 that it has been running on has been crashing
(system panic).  Each morning when I come in I see that the system is in a
"down" state.  I don't see anything showing this in /var/adm/messages or
/var/log/syslog, but I do see newly created files in /var/crash/unix.1
When I check to see what type of file this "unix.1" is I get this report:
ELF 64 bit executable SPARCV9 version1, UltraSPARC1 Extensions Required,
statically linked, not stripped.


Can anyone tell me what is file is and if it is some sort of crash reporting
file how do I read it? 




Thanks 



P.S.  When checking for any information on a system crash I usually check,
/var/adm/messages, /var/log/syslog and /var/crash      Should I be checking
anywhere else?


Thanks All! 


Christopher A. 
Los Angeles, Ca.