Having two knobs until you get a kernel core dump saved is silly.

Leave dumpdev, but kill the savecore variable.  Thus, it's still off
by default, but all you need is enabling dumpdev now.

phk's old argument that savecore might inadvertendly fill up the disk
no longer counts, savecore now correctly obeyes a `minfree' file, and
we ship our systems with such a file that even has a reasonable
default.

etc/rc

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #!/bin/sh
-#	$Id$
+#	$Id: rc,v 1.113 1997/02/23 09:20:46 peter Exp $
 #	From: @(#)rc	5.27 (Berkeley) 6/5/91
 
 # System startup script run by init on autoboot
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ fi
 
 # /var/crash should be a directory or a symbolic link
 # to the crash directory if core dumps are to be saved.
-if [ "X${savecore}" = X"YES" -a -d /var/crash ]; then
+if [ -d /var/crash ]; then
 	echo -n checking for core dump...
 	savecore /var/crash
 fi

etc/sysconfig

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 # This is sysconfig - a file full of useful variables that you can set 
 # to change the default startup behavior of your system.
 #
-#	$Id$
+#	$Id: sysconfig,v 1.60 1997/02/23 09:20:54 peter Exp $
 
 ######################### Start Of Local Configuration Section ###########
 
@@ -235,9 +235,6 @@ xtend=NO
 # in /etc/fstab.
 dumpdev=NO
 
-# Set to YES if you want kernel crashdumps to be saved for debugging
-savecore=NO
-
 # Set to an additional swapfile you'd like to have added to preallocated swap
 # space during system boot (or NO for none).
 swapfile=NO