I recently spent some time trying to figure out why there was an “*” (asterisk) in the CLI prompt on a Motorola RFS7000 that I had in our testlab. Jim (Motorola) explained that the Motorola WS5100 (v3.x) and the RFS7000 (v1.x) will place a “*” (asterisk) at the end of the hostname in the CLI prompt if there is a core dump file or crash log that hasn’t been cleared from memory. You can clear the dump files along with all service logs using the command “service clear all”. Once I issued this command the “*” (asterisk) disappeared from the CLI prompt and all was well again.

RFS7000*>
RFS7000*>enable
RFS7000*#service clear ?
all          Remove all core, dump and panic files
aplogs       Remove all local ap log files (does not clear them off the AP)
clitree      Remove clitree.html (created by the save-cli command)
cores        Remove all core files
dumps        Remove all dump files
panics       Remove all kernel panic files
securitymgr  Securitymgr parameters
RFS7000*#>service clear all
RFS7000#

Cheers!

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