Re: crashtar

Mikolaj Golub schrieb am 2009-10-10:

On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 12:34:05 +0200 (CEST) Alexander Best wrote:

AB> thanks. this is a cool script and very useful indeed. only thing
you might
AB> want to do is check for root privileges at the beginning to
avoid nasty error
AB> messages like.

AB> awk: can't open file /var/crash/info.0
AB> source line number 12

In some cases you might not need root privileges. E.g. on some
servers I don't
have root but SA gives me read access to crashdumps. In this case if
the
script had a check for root privileges I would not be able to use it.

Actually as for me the message looks informative enough, it says that
we have
some problems with accessing crash dump files, so permissions should
be
checked.

alright then. :)

again: great script. would be great to have this in the ports dir in the near
future.

cheers.
alex
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