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: 22 Oct 1995 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.