From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 19 03:33:02 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46928106566B for ; Mon, 19 May 2008 03:33:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd-ml@scrapper.ca) Received: from pd3mo1so.prod.shaw.ca (idcmail-mo1so.shaw.ca [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 177E58FC16 for ; Mon, 19 May 2008 03:33:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd-ml@scrapper.ca) Received: from pd4mr3so.prod.shaw.ca (pd4mr3so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.214]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0K13002GIJ5RA310@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 18 May 2008 21:32:15 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml1so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.145]) by pd4mr3so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-7.05 (built Sep 5 2006)) with ESMTP id <0K1300LG2J5QN580@pd4mr3so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 18 May 2008 21:32:15 -0600 (MDT) Received: from proven.lan ([24.85.241.34]) by l-daemon (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-7.05 (built Sep 5 2006)) with ESMTP id <0K13000QQJ5Q9D00@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 18 May 2008 21:32:14 -0600 (MDT) Received: from proven.lan (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by proven.lan (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m4J3WDCj002570 for ; Sun, 18 May 2008 20:32:13 -0700 (PDT envelope-from fbsd-ml@scrapper.ca) Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by proven.lan (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) id m4J3WDaf002569 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 18 May 2008 20:32:13 -0700 (PDT envelope-from fbsd-ml@scrapper.ca) Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 20:32:13 -0700 From: Norbert Papke In-reply-to: To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <200805182032.13524.fbsd-ml@scrapper.ca> Organization: Archaeological Filing MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline References: X-Authentication-warning: proven.lan: npapke set sender to fbsd-ml@scrapper.ca using -f User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 Subject: Re: Core file output directory, writeable directories and procfs X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 03:33:02 -0000 On May 18, 2008, stonee@safe-mail.net wrote: > What are the rules dictating where core files are output? Is there a way to > setup an output directory? The sysctl(8) MIB controls core file generation. See core(5) for more information. To specify a particular location for your core files, you might want to put something like kern.corefile=/tmp/%N.%P.core into /etc/sysctl.conf. Cheers.