Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2004 11:04:26 +0200 From: Geert Hendrickx <geert.hendrickx@ua.ac.be> To: Chris <bsdnewbie@coolarrow.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: core dump location Message-ID: <20040703090426.GA1757@lori.mine.nu> In-Reply-To: <200407021814280433.2F00477B@coolarrow.com> References: <200407021814280433.2F00477B@coolarrow.com>
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On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 06:14:28PM -0500, Chris wrote: > *This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) > Pro* > > > 5.2.1-RELEASE > > > I tried using this command to change the location where my core dump > is being written: > > sysctl kern.corefile="/var/coredumps/%U/%N.core" > > > After doing that, new core dumps didn't show up there. I tried > creating the directory (wasn't sure if it would be created with the > first core dump or not) and chmod it to 0777 just to make sure it was > writeable by any process - still no core dumps there. > > Is there a way to put it back the way it was, where the core dump ends > up in the working directory as programname.core ? > > Thanks, Chris I never touched it, so here's the default value: # sysctl kern.corefile kern.corefile: %N.core GH
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