11.0 Core Dumps

Doug Hardie doug at mail.sermon-archive.info
Mon Aug 8 06:22:09 UTC 2016


> On 7 August 2016, at 23:20, Michael Schuster <michaelsprivate at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Does the process dumping core have write permission in /var/crash/ ?
> 
> regards
> Michael
> 
> On Sun, Aug 7, 2016 at 11:10 PM, Doug Hardie <doug at mail.sermon-archive.info> wrote:
> I have been trying to get server processes to core dump.  I have:
> kern.sugid_coredump=1
> kern.corefile="/var/crash/%N.core"
> 
> mail# ulimit
> unlimited
> 
> I see Segment Violations in messages, but no indication of core dumps and no core files are created.  There must be an additional setting required for them now.
> 
> — Doug

I made the permission all rw (e.g., 777).  That didn't help.  Messages gives no indication that it even tried to create a core dump.


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