Package: kexec-tools Version: 1:2.0.14-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Dear Maintainer,
I was mildly annoyed by the lack of a real man page for kdump (not that it needs much of one), so I wrote a slightly better one than the stub. I'd love to see it included here or upstream, and thought that requesting its inclusion here might be a decent way to shake out any objections first. If you have any suggestions for improvement or would like to see me just submit it to upstream, I'd be happy to. Thanks, - Rich -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.5 APT prefers stable-debug APT policy: (1000, 'stable-debug'), (1000, 'stable'), (900, 'testing-debug'), (900, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable-debug'), (800, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates-debug'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-8-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages kexec-tools depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.61 ii libc6 2.24-11+deb9u3 ii lsb-base 9.20161125 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-5 kexec-tools recommends no packages. kexec-tools suggests no packages. -- debconf information excluded
.\" Hey, EMACS: -*- nroff -*- .\" First parameter, NAME, should be all caps .\" Second parameter, SECTION, should be 1-8, maybe w/ subsection .\" other parameters are allowed: see man(7), man(1) .TH KDUMP 8 "Sep 17, 2018" .\" Please adjust this date whenever revising the manpage. .\" .\" Some roff macros, for reference: .\" .nh disable hyphenation .\" .hy enable hyphenation .\" .ad l left justify .\" .ad b justify to both left and right margins .\" .nf disable filling .\" .fi enable filling .\" .br insert line break .\" .sp <n> insert n+1 empty lines .\" for manpage-specific macros, see man(7) .SH NAME kdump \- Tool to take a Linux kernel dump .SH SYNOPSIS .B kdump .RI [ options ] " start_address" ... .SH DESCRIPTION .PP .\" TeX users may be more comfortable with the \fB<whatever>\fP and .\" \fI<whatever>\fP escape sequences to invode bold face and italics, .\" respectively. \fBkdump\fP is a tool to take a crash dump of a formerly-running kernel after kexec into a reserved area of memory with a tiny Linux environment. .SH OPTIONS None. .PP .SH USAGE .PP You almost never want to invoke this directly; see .BR kdump-tools (5) or .BR kexec (8) for what you likely want to know. .SH SEE ALSO .BR makedumpfile (8), .BR crash (8), .BR kdump-tools (5), .BR kexec (8), .BR vmcore-dmesg (8) .SH AUTHOR kdump was written by Eric Biederman. .PP This manual page was initially written by Khalid Aziz <khalid.a...@hp.com>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). Additional content was added by Rich Ercolani <rincebr...@gmail.com>.
