Subject:    -4- My SGI crashed and generated a file,
                /usr/adm/crash/vmcore.1. How can I examine this file to
                see what crashed my system?
Date: 4 Jun 1997 00:00:01 EST

  For a start, you can use 'dbx' like so:

    dbx -k /var/adm/crash/{unix,vmcore}.#
    t
    &putbuf/1000s

  Some machines have a special 'dbx' for crash dumps,
  /usr/adm/crash/dbx.  If it exists, use it instead of /usr/bin/dbx.

  The IRIX 5.x Electronic Services package includes a script, 'crpt',
  which does this and more automagically. A copy of the IRIX 5.2
  version lives at ftp://viz.tamu.edu/pub/sgi/software/admin/crpt.

  Also, SGI's 'icrash' utility can generate helpful reports and allow
  experienced administrators and support people to sift through the core
  file.  Get patch 813 for IRIX 5.3 or patch 769 for IRIX 6.1.  icrash
  is part of eoe.sw.unix (and therefore installed by default) on IRIX
  6.2 and above.