[Info-vax] Not getting a dump file when VMS crashes

[David Froble]

JF Mezei wrote:
> David Froble wrote:
> 
>> $ ana/crash
>> _Dump File: sys$system:sysdump.dmp
> 
> 
> Don't you have to specify a dump file specification in SYSGEN  and a
> flag to cause VMS to dump to it ?

Unless I've forgotten everything I've ever known (might not be much), the contents of 
memory are written by default to SYS$SYSTEM:SYSDUMP.DMP.  I'm not trying to write the dump 
to the paging file, or DOSD (off system disk) or anything like that.  My SYSDUMP.DMP is 
the size of physical memory.