-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Tim Daneliuk wrote: > On 6/18/2010 2:09 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote: >> On 18/06/2010 19:56:26, Tim Daneliuk wrote: >>> I should mention that I don't think it is actually "dumping core". >>> It's just reporting the problem in /var/log/messages... >> You'll only get a core file if the current working directory of the >> process is writable by the process. Normally. There are various >> sysctls you can use to affect core-dumping: >> >> kern.corefile: process corefile name format string >> kern.coredump: Enable/Disable coredumps >> kern.sugid_coredump: Enable coredumping set user/group ID processes >> >> See core(5). It is possible to set kern.corefile to an absolute path -- >> eg /tmp/%N.core -- to always record corefiles in a writable directory. >> Also, look at setrlimit values for the maximum size core file permitted. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Matthew >> > > > Well ... I've figured out what's causing it, but I still don't know why. This > is caused when '/usr/local/etc/rc.d/mailscanner restart' is issued from a > script > I run to reset the mail system. However, it does not happen every time ... go > figure.
Hi Tim, I apologize if you mentioned this before, but are you using Spamassassin with mailscanner? This message describes a problem that sounds very similar to yours, and there's a solution included: http://old.nabble.com/Re%3A-amavisd---exited-on-signal-11---FreeBSD-8-with-Perl-5.10-p28627858.html Hope that helps, Greg - -- Greg Larkin http://www.FreeBSD.org/ - The Power To Serve http://www.sourcehosting.net/ - Ready. Set. Code. http://twitter.com/sourcehosting/ - Follow me, follow you -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iD8DBQFMG8on0sRouByUApARAmSwAKCnYeOhGo4OOKFGr2irxGAEJadVewCgh4aC 8XQhVF7fINhH5ADDOjNhTCg= =FriQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"