Catching core files in read-only jails

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

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In message <56FE13BA.4060500 at FreeBSD.org>, Matthew Seaman writes:

>> If an application is running on a production server in a read-only
>> jail for security purposes, and it crashes occasionally due to some
>> unknown bug, is there any way to catch a core file?
>
>You'll have to mount a read-write filesystem somewhere in your jail and
>configure core dumps to be written to that filesystem.  Something like
>this example from core(5):

It would be really nice if instead of coredumps one could select to
just get a stack backtrace.

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