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Date:      Fri, 04 Dec 1998 12:25:13 -0500 (EST)
From:      John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Core dump requirements and purging old files..
Message-ID:  <XFMail.981204122513.jobaldwi@vt.edu>

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Two questions:

1) What is required to get a program to dump core?  I have a CGI script that
keeps deferencing null pointers and terminating with signal 11.  I want it to
dump a core file as it would make debugging it easier and quicker than dumping
printf()'s all over the place.  I thought it was a permissions problem (Apache
and scripts run as nobody:nogroup) so I made the script temporarily suid and
owned by root, but it still refuses to dump core. Any suggestions?

2) After doing make world, is it safe to wipe /usr/include of any files older
than the newest installed set?  My problem is that some things don't appear to
get updated (such as /usr/include/sys) and I'm not sure what is safe to purge
(if anything) and what is not.

Thanks for any help you can give.

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John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu> -- http://members.freedomnet.com/~jbaldwin/
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