On rebooting SCO UNIX System V/386, the message "There may be a system dump memory image in the swap device" is seen and may be seen on subsequent reboots, indicats that a dump of system memory may have been written to the swap device following a system panic. If required for debugging purposes the dump it can be saved onto floppy or tape for analysis by the crash(ADM) utility. This however does not delete the dump image from /dev/swap. During the boot sequence, the script "/etc/dumpsave" is run which executes the undocumented binary /etc/memsize which can be used to detect a saved memory image. When a system has sufficient memory that it does not have to use swap, a saved memory image will never be overwritten, and so the message will always appear on rebooting. The program clearswap can be used to overwrite the flag that /etc/memsize uses to detect a dump image. To install clearswap, copy the compressed (.Z) file into one of your bin directories and explode it with the following command: uncompress clearswap.Z You will need to make it executable, as follows: chmod 755 clearswap Note that clearswap should not be run on a live swapping system, and requires no parameters: clearswap