[Gllug] [OT] Linux question - core dumps

[Walid Shaari]

On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 23:48, rich at annexia.org wrote:
> Sorry to post an off-topic question to this political discussion group ...
> 
> I have a server which is running as 'nobody' (actually it starts running
> as root and setuid/setgids to this user). It is running in a directory
> called /tmp/cores/ which is 0755, chowned to nobody.nogroup. I've also
> called 'ulimit -c unlimited'. Despite this, the server refuses to dump
> core if it crashes. This is really annoying because it makes it very
> hard to debug the server (it crashes about once every 5 days).
> 
> Any ideas how to force it to dump core???
> 
> Rich.
Sorry for double posting, but from my other post link it recommends
to not set ulimit -c to unlimited, but set it to 20,000 for example

Walid.
> 


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