Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1998 19:07:17 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Core dump requirements and purging old files.. Message-ID: <19981204190717.A13233@scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.981204122513.jobaldwi@vt.edu> References: <XFMail.981204122513.jobaldwi@vt.edu>
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John Baldwin wrote: > 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? I understand setuid/setgid programs do not dump core by default. Try sysctl -w kern.sugid_coredump=1 (I think that's the one, try sysctl -a | grep core if not.) -- Ben Smithurst ben@scientia.demon.co.uk send a blank message to ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk for PGP key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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