Trouble getting a core dump from clamd

[Chuck Swiger]

Hi--

On Jan 20, 2010, at 12:46 PM, Doug Poland wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestion and the pointer to man 5 core.  I
> implemented your suggestions but still get no core dump.  Very
> strange...

Check your default resource limits (shell startup files & /etc/login.conf) and see whether coredumpsize is set to 0, maybe?  If you build and run:

% cat crash.c
#include <stdlib.h>

main()
{
    char *bad = NULL;
    bad[0] = '1';
}
% cc -o crash crash.c
% ./crash
[1]    16550 segmentation fault (core dumped)  ./crash
% ls /cores
crash.16550.core

...do you get this trivial program to dump core?

Regards,
-- 
-Chuck