Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 14:41:06 +0100 From: Tim Stephens <tim@tjstephens.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: perl dumped core--- trying to find the cause. Message-ID: <20050430134105.GA9617@tjstephens.com>
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Sometime yesterday, perl dumped core on my server. I've been trying to work out what actually went wrong. I have two things that I know are running in perl: 1) ddclient, which keeps my ip address synced with dyndns.org and 2) spamassassin. The only info that I can find is a mention in the kernel log: Apr 29 08:51:55 yuri /kernel: pid 2683 (perl), uid 1002: exited on signal 11 (core dumped) Now, the UID is mine, so I assume that this was spamassassin that went wrong since ddclient is running as root. Also in my ~/Mail directory is a perl.core file that I tried to open with gdb, but it borks because there is no symbol file and no stack (I guess because it was from a script?). What more can I do to try and track down/prevent this happening again. Could there be any other processes that I have running in perl (i.e. is there a way to find out 'ps -ax | grep perl' only finds ddclient because that is running as a daemon, spamassassin is called by procmail, so isn't there all the time) My server has rebooted itself a few times in the last six months (due to kernel panics), and I've been trying to find the cause. Could this be it? I haven't updated in a while, so would going to 4-CURRENT be the best plan (I'm going to stick with FreeBSD-4 at the moment)? Thanks, Tim -- tim+questions@tjstephens.com
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