[Gllug] [OT] Linux question - core dumps

[rich at annexia.org]

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.

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