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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!news.stealth.net!news.mxol.com!news3.agis.net!agis!atmnet.net!news.lightside.com!flourine.shocking.com!user From: fred@lightside.net (Fred Condo) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: enabling core dumps Date: Sat, 12 Oct 1996 08:42:00 -0700 Organization: Lightside, Inc. - Internet Access Lines: 13 Message-ID: <fred-1210960842000001@flourine.shocking.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: flourine.shocking.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit What is required to get a failing program to create a core dump? In particular, I am trying to get Apache to dump core when it fails with a SEGV. I've checked ulimit -c (it's unlimited), yet Apache won't dump core on failure. This is under FreeBSD 2.1.0-R. The core dump would be very useful for debugging Apache's failures. I wrote a small program that deliberately makes a SEGV, and it dumps core very nicely. What am I missing? -- http://www.lightside.net/~fred/ + net access + http://www.lightside.net/ "Attempts to control the use of encryption technology are wrong in principle, unworkable in practice, and damaging to the long term economic value of the information networks." - UK Labour Party