Package: exim4 Version: 4.69-9 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Hi,
src/deliver.c:1726 lists the following code: /* Prevent core dumps, as we don't want them in users' home directories. HP-UX doesn't have RLIMIT_CORE; I don't know how to do this in that system. Some experimental/developing systems (e.g. GNU/Hurd) may define RLIMIT_CORE but not support it in setrlimit(). For such systems, do not complain if the error is "not supported". */ #ifdef RLIMIT_CORE struct rlimit rl; rl.rlim_cur = 0; rl.rlim_max = 0; if (setrlimit(RLIMIT_CORE, &rl) < 0) Setting the rlim_max to zero makes it impossible to enable coredumps for subprocesses. Setting rlim_cur to zero would be enough to prevent coredumps; soft limits vs. hard limits. I've the problem that I pass my mails to bogofilter via the systemfilter and bogofilter crashes sometimes (#510793). I want to get a coredump of the crashed process to further insprect the problem, but it's not possible because the hardlimit is set to zero and the systemfilter is not run by root. --- deliver.c+ 2009-01-11 20:17:19.000000000 +0100 +++ deliver.c 2009-01-11 20:20:06.000000000 +0100 @@ -1731,8 +1731,9 @@ #ifdef RLIMIT_CORE struct rlimit rl; + if (getrlimit(RLIMIT_CORE, &rl) < 0) + rl.rlim_max = 0; rl.rlim_cur = 0; - rl.rlim_max = 0; if (setrlimit(RLIMIT_CORE, &rl) < 0) { #ifdef SETRLIMIT_NOT_SUPPORTED Bye, Jörg. -- Package-specific info: Exim version 4.69 #1 built 30-Sep-2008 18:26:35 Copyright (c) University of Cambridge 2006 Berkeley DB: Berkeley DB 4.6.21: (September 27, 2007) Support for: crypteq iconv() IPv6 GnuTLS move_frozen_messages Lookups: lsearch wildlsearch nwildlsearch iplsearch cdb dbm dbmnz dnsdb dsearch nis nis0 passwd Authenticators: cram_md5 plaintext Routers: accept dnslookup ipliteral manualroute queryprogram redirect Transports: appendfile/maildir/mailstore autoreply lmtp pipe smtp Fixed never_users: 0 Size of off_t: 8 Configuration file is /etc/exim4/exim4.conf -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (95, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i586) Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-rc8 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages exim4 depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.24 Debian configuration management sy ii exim4-base 4.69-9 support files for all Exim MTA (v4 ii exim4-daemon-light 4.69-9 lightweight Exim MTA (v4) daemon exim4 recommends no packages. exim4 suggests no packages. -- debconf information: exim4/drec:
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