Re: "Mysterious" system crashes



"bradhamilton" <bradhamilton@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:473CF41C.1060500@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
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Do you have a dump file? SYS$SYSTEM:SYSDUMP.DMP
Is a dump being written to it?

RABBIT::SYSTEM$ dir/dat=(cre,mod) sys$system:sysdump.dmp

Directory SYS$SYSROOT:[SYSEXE]

SYSDUMP.DMP;2 245215/245248 28-DEC-2002 23:33:40.29 12-NOV-2006 22:20
:02.28

Please remember that the system dump routines do NOT update the modified date/time of the system dump file. They only way to tell if the file contents have actually been changed is to analyze it. This little tidbit has caught out a number of VMS users.

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