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Bug 468114

Summary: core_collector line in /etc/kdump.conf fails due to errors from /sbin/mkdumprd
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Charlotte Richardson <charlotte.richardson>
Component: kexec-toolsAssignee: Neil Horman <nhorman>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Red Hat Kernel QE team <kernel-qe>
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Description Charlotte Richardson 2008-10-22 21:55:28 UTC 
Description of problem:
The /sbin/mkdumprd in RHEL5.3_Alpha can no longer parse the core_collector line in /etc/kdump.conf. The line looks like:
core_collector makedumpfile -d 31


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
RHEL5.3_Alpha 2.6.18-118.el5

How reproducible:
Every time.


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Configure kdump.
2. Add the above line to /etc/kdump.conf.
3. Service kdump restart.
  
Actual results:
/sbin/mkdumprd: line 1716: test: too many arguments
/etc/kdump.conf: Need a location for core_collector


Expected results:
Should work (worked in RHEL5.2).


Additional info:
I have temporarily hacked /sbin/mkdumprd for our use to get around this by changing line 1752 to read:
kdmup_chk "test -n \"$config_val\"" "Need a location for $config_opt"

That is, I removed two extra pairs of back slashes around "$config_opt", making this line the same as it was in RHEL5.2. (You probably want to do this in a cleaner way...)
Comment 1 Neil Horman 2008-10-23 14:54:41 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 463878 ***