Disregard last post.
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Austin Gonyou
Systems Architect, CCNA
Coremetrics, Inc.
Phone: 512-796-9023
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg Ames [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 5:29 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: dumps on Linux: some progress
>
>
> "Gonyou, Austin" wrote:
>
> > The answer to this lies in the fact that nobody owns
> nothing in /. / is
> > nobody's home dir in /etc/passwd. I can get nobody to dump
> core when running
> > top, if his homedir is someplace writeable. Alternately, I
> can get nobody to
> > dump core, even if his homedir is not writeable, but he
> owns the dir in
> > which he might dump core(working dir).
> >
> > To illustrate this point, I told /etc/passwd that nobody's
> homedir was /tmp,
> > su - nobody, top(then kill 11 on top's pid).
> > I get a core in Nobody's homedir.
> > If I reset nobody's home back to /, then su - nobody, cd
> /tmp, top(then kill
> > 11 on top's pid), I still get a core.
>
> hmmmm, the last sequence (cd /tmp) is analogous to what Apache does in
> sig_coredump, so I'm still a little puzzled.
>
> OK, I tried that sequence with a cd to my Apache dump dir and killing
> top, and Nobody still can't dump there. But Nobody created a file
> "test" in that dir with vi:
>
> [nobody@xml /ap2.org]$ ls -l |grep dumps
> drwxrwxrwt 2 gregames gregames 4096 Aug 9 18:11 dumps
> [nobody@xml /ap2.org]$ ls -l dumps
> total 772
> -rw------- 1 root root 1150976 Aug 9 17:10 core
> -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nobody 6 Aug 9 18:11 test
>
> Anyway, thanks much for digging into this. I'll stick with "webuser"
> for now.
>
> And congrats on sucessfully bring up all the new software! Should we
> assume from your SUCCESS!!!!!! e-mail that all this is running in
> production? What kind of hit rate?
>
> Greg
>
