how to force a dump?

[Curtis Generous]

In article <8904272154.AA00226 at era.ucar.edu.UCAR.EDU> era at NIWOT.UCAR.EDU writes:
>We have an occasional situation where our 90x running 4.4 freezes
>up.   ....
>Question: is there some way, from one of the COS panels, to coerce
>OSx into dropping a core file?
>
>Ed Arnold
>era at ncar.ucar.edu

If you have the kernel debugger compiled in (do a 'strings /vmunix' to check
it out or look at the config file in /sys/kernel{_m}/HOSTNAME}, you can
do a ^@ (as in <CTRL>@) at the console.  This will throw you into the debugger.
Just type 'panic' and then 'exit'.

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