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# 1. Introduction

The LKCD (Linux Kernel Crash Dump) project is a set of kernel patches and utilities to allow a copy of the kernel memory to be saved in the event of a kernel panic. The saved kernel image makes forensics on the kernel panic possible with utilities included in the package. Most commercial Unix operating systems come with similar crash utilities, but this package is fairly new to Linux and has to be added on manually. The LKCD utility is not designed to gather helpful information in the case of a hardware caused panic or a segment violation. The complete LKCD package is available for download at http://lkcd.sourceforge.net/.

## 1.1. Copyright and License

This document is copyrighted (c) 2002 by Norman Patten. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is available at http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html.

Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds . lkcd is distributed under the copyright of Silicon Graphics Inc.

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