Trouble getting a core dump from clamd

Doug Poland doug at polands.org
Wed Jan 20 20:46:14 UTC 2010


On Tue, January 19, 2010 12:35, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> Hi--
>
> On Jan 19, 2010, at 10:04 AM, Doug Poland wrote:
>> No joy.
>>
>> # sysctl kern.corefile=/var/crash/clamd.core
>> # /usr/local/etc/rc.d/clamav-clamd start
>>  Starting clamav_clamd.
>>  Segmentation fault
>> # ll /var/crash
>>  total 2
>>  -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  5 Apr 10  2005 minfree
>
> Please see "man 5 core"; in particular, clamd changes userid:
>
> By default, a process that changes user or group credentials
> whether real or effective will not create a corefile.  This behaviour
> can be changed to generate a core dump by setting the sysctl(8)
> variable
>      kern.sugid_coredump to 1.
>
> ...so you will need to toggle that sysctl also.  I'd suggest doing
> something more like:
>
> mkdir /cores
> chmod 1777 /cores
> sysctl kern.sugid_coredump=1
> sysctl kern.corefile=/cores/%N.%P.core
>
> ...but adjust the path to be under /var or /usr if free diskspace
> makes doing so necessary.
>
Thanks for the suggestion and the pointer to man 5 core.  I
implemented your suggestions but still get no core dump.  Very
strange...



-- 
Regards,
Doug



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