Document more explicitly that the kernel must be `secure' according to

secure_path to be used automatically. (Of course, you can override with the
-N option.)
Addresses bin/13665.
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.\" $NetBSD: savecore.8,v 1.21 2001/06/13 23:24:32 wiz Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: savecore.8,v 1.22 2001/08/20 14:23:59 wiz Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm savecore
.Nd "save a core dump of the operating system"
.Nd save a core dump of the operating system
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm
.Fl c
@ -103,6 +103,15 @@ Use
.Ar system
as the kernel instead of the default (returned by
.Xr getbootfile 3 ) .
Note that
.Xr getbootfile 3
uses
.Xr secure_path 3
to check that kernel file is
.Dq secure
and will default to
.Pa /netbsd
if the check fails.
.It Fl v
Prints out some additional debugging information.
.It Fl z
@ -132,12 +141,12 @@ successfully runs.
.Pp
.Nm
also checks the available disk space before attempting to make the copies.
If there is insufficient disk space in the filesystem containing
If there is insufficient disk space in the file system containing
.Ar directory ,
or if the file
.Ar directory Ns Pa /minfree
exists and the number of free kilobytes (for non-superusers) in the
filesystem after the copies were made would be less than the number
file system after the copies were made would be less than the number
in the first line of this file, the copies are not attempted.
.Pp
If
@ -152,9 +161,10 @@ The minfree code does not consider the effect of compression.
.Xr fstat 1 ,
.Xr gdb 1 ,
.Xr gzip 1 ,
.Xr send-pr 1 ,
.Xr netstat 1 ,
.Xr ps 1 ,
.Xr send-pr 1 ,
.Xr secure_path 3 ,
.Xr dmesg 8 ,
.Xr iostat 8 ,
.Xr pstat 8 ,