2009/10/22 Ralph Kutschera <[email protected]>: > Michael Wood schrieb: >> >> Basically when a process crashes on Unix from a segmentation fault (or >> for a couple of other reasons) the operating system can take a >> snapshot of the memory of the process and write it to a "core" file. >> Whether the OS will actually do this is controlled by things like the >> RLIMIT_CORE which can be set with "ulimit -c" and in the case of Linux >> by some stuff in /proc. >> >> See http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-4897 for more details. > > Ok. > > So I put the following into the startup script of the samba daemon and > assume this works: > >> ulimit -H -c unlimited >> echo "/var/log/coredumps/core.%e.%p" > /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern > > Nonetheless I'm getting no coredumps what makes me think about whether samba > really crashes.
Try adding in "ulimit -S -c unlimited" as well to change the soft limit. > If it does, will it be restarted automatically? I couldn't find a reason for > that within the Debian startup scripts. > > Ralph -- Michael Wood <[email protected]> -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
