Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 08:59:07 -0700 From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: grog@lemis.com Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail dying with SIGSEGV? Message-ID: <199810221559.IAA19074@austin.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <19981022174520.V1219@freebie.lemis.com> References: <19981022174520.V1219@freebie.lemis.com>
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In article <19981022174520.V1219@freebie.lemis.com>,
Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> wrote:
> Since today, I've had repeated cases of the sendmail daemon dying with
> a SIGSEGV. In each case, it's a child process: the parent daemon
> continues to run. This is a 3.0-RELEASE kernel compiled 5 days ago.
> I tried recompiling sendmail with debug symbols, but I can't find any
> core dumps. Does it not leave one under these circumstances? Can I
> change its mind?
You can set the sysctl variable "kern.sugid_coredump" to 1. That's
kind of a blunt instrument, though, since its effect is systemwide.
You can also change "kern.corefile" to make it put the core dumps into
a fixed directory, no matter where the process was executing when it
died.
John
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