Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site rlgvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!rlgvax!guy From: guy@rlgvax.UUCP (Guy Harris) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: Hanging VAX 11/780 - any solutions? Message-ID: <163@rlgvax.UUCP> Date: Tue, 2-Oct-84 18:46:16 EDT Article-I.D.: rlgvax.163 Posted: Tue Oct 2 18:46:16 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 4-Oct-84 04:43:07 EDT References: <950@kaist.UUCP>, <13700065@uiucdcs.UUCP> <178@uthub.UUCP> Organization: CCI Office Systems Group, Reston, VA Lines: 20 > If your 4.nBSD VAX hangs, you may force a dump by halting it and ... > > >>H > >>E/P/L 4 > P 00000004 number > >>C number You can also use the "CRASH" command script that comes on the Berkeley 11/780 boot floppy (I seem to remember it being part of the build script for the floppy, anyway; I know it's on our floppy); it's only "bug" is that the comments it prints out say something about crashing a VMS system, but UNIX dies just as nicely as VMS when you jam a nasty value into the PC... Just type a ^P and type "@CRASH" when you get the prompt. Don't know whether any such script exists for 730s or 750s, or whether the Berkeley cassettes include them. Guy Harris {seismo,ihnp4,allegra}!rlgvax!guy