on 2-26-2009 3:29 PM Mark Hedges spake the following: > > On Thu, 26 Feb 2009, Scott Silva wrote: > >>> On Thu, 26 Feb 2009, Timo Sirainen wrote: >>> >>>> On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 14:23 -0800, Mark Hedges wrote: >>>>> Feb 26 14:14:06 anubis dovecot: child 25810 (pop3) killed with signal 11 >>>> It shouldn't be crashing. Could you get a gdb backtrace from this? >>>> http://dovecot.org/bugreport.html >>> I set mail_drop_priv_before_exec = yes, and I did >>> `ulimit -c unlimited` and `echo "/tmp/core" > >>> /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern` before starting dovecot, >>> but I still didn't get a core dump anywhere. Seems like >>> the home directory is okay. No core file. Even looked >>> everywhere with `locate` after `updatedb`. Is this a >>> reason I can say that CentOS sucks too much to use in >>> production? ;-) >> Thousands (if not hundreds of thousands) of people are >> using CentOS in production. What makes you think it is >> CentOS? Just because you are trying to use a poorly (maybe >> inadequately is a better word) written application like >> openwebmail doesn't fault the OS. > > This particular facet of the problem doesn't have anything > to do with openwebmail. Do you know how to get core files > to work for dovecot under CentOS 5.2? Because it's not > working according to the dovecot instructions. If you > happen to have any useful information, thank you. > > Mark > http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-4897 shows how to enable core dumps in RedHat and CentOS. It is set in /etc/profile, so it would need to be temporarily edited there.
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