Re: [CentOS] another bizarre thing...

2019-08-12 Thread Jobst Schmalenbach
On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 08:52:59PM -0400, Fred Smith (fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us) wrote: > On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 10:16:35AM +1000, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 05, 2019 at 08:57:45PM -0400, Fred Smith > > (fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us) wrote: > > > Hi all! > > > > Late to the

Re: [CentOS] another bizarre thing...

2019-08-11 Thread Fred Smith
On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 10:16:35AM +1000, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: > On Mon, Aug 05, 2019 at 08:57:45PM -0400, Fred Smith > (fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us) wrote: > > Hi all! > > > > I'm stuck on something really bizarre that is happening to a product > > I "own" at work. It's a C program,

Re: [CentOS] another bizarre thing...

2019-08-11 Thread Jobst Schmalenbach
On Mon, Aug 05, 2019 at 08:57:45PM -0400, Fred Smith (fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us) wrote: > Hi all! > > I'm stuck on something really bizarre that is happening to a product > I "own" at work. It's a C program, built on CentOS, runs on CentOs or > RHEL, has been in circulation since the early

Re: [CentOS] another bizarre thing...

2019-08-09 Thread Young, Gregory
Smith Sent: August 8, 2019 7:48 PM To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] another bizarre thing... On Thu, Aug 08, 2019 at 05:06:06PM +, Young, Gregory wrote: > Is this on both EL6 and EL7? If only EL7, it could be control groups causing > the issue. The idea of cgroups is t

Re: [CentOS] another bizarre thing...

2019-08-08 Thread Fred Smith
it thinks the program is killing itself, but as the guy who wrote it, I don't think so. the script can be seen below in earlier mail. As for if it also fails on C6, I don't know. I've asked our support team to see if they have a C6/EL6 customer who will let them install the latest version for 6 and

Re: [CentOS] another bizarre thing...

2019-08-08 Thread Young, Gregory
own. Gregory Young -Original Message- From: CentOS On Behalf Of Fred Smith Sent: August 7, 2019 1:39 PM To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] another bizarre thing... On Mon, Aug 05, 2019 at 08:57:45PM -0400, Fred Smith wrote: > Hi all! > > I'm stuck on something rea

Re: [CentOS] another bizarre thing...

2019-08-07 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 7 Aug 2019 13:38:54 -0400 Fred Smith wrote: > So,... now I'm wondering how one figures that out. Since it's your program you have the source code. printf is your friend. Start adding printf statements (to console and/or to a file at your option) with status reports ("widget counting

Re: [CentOS] another bizarre thing...

2019-08-07 Thread Fred Smith
On Mon, Aug 05, 2019 at 08:57:45PM -0400, Fred Smith wrote: > Hi all! > > I'm stuck on something really bizarre that is happening to a product > I "own" at work. It's a C program, built on CentOS, runs on CentOs or > RHEL, has been in circulation since the early 00's, is in use at > hundreds of

Re: [CentOS] another bizarre thing...

2019-08-07 Thread Fred Smith
On Tue, Aug 06, 2019 at 09:02:37PM -0600, Warren Young wrote: > On Aug 6, 2019, at 8:48 PM, Fred Smith wrote: > > > > Setting up as you described earlier, is there a way to allow only > > a single program to drop core? > > Of course. > > The * in the limits.d file is a “domain” value you can

Re: [CentOS] another bizarre thing...

2019-08-06 Thread Warren Young
On Aug 6, 2019, at 8:48 PM, Fred Smith wrote: > > Setting up as you described earlier, is there a way to allow only > a single program to drop core? Of course. The * in the limits.d file is a “domain” value you can adjust to suit:

Re: [CentOS] another bizarre thing...

2019-08-06 Thread Fred Smith
On Tue, Aug 06, 2019 at 03:18:06PM -0600, Warren Young wrote: > On Aug 6, 2019, at 7:59 AM, Fred Smith wrote: > > > > On Tue, Aug 06, 2019 at 05:27:54AM -0600, Warren Young wrote: > >> On Aug 5, 2019, at 6:57 PM, Fred Smith > >> wrote: > >>> > >>> no core file (yes, ulimit is configured) > >

Re: [CentOS] another bizarre thing...

2019-08-06 Thread Warren Young
On Aug 6, 2019, at 7:59 AM, Fred Smith wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 06, 2019 at 05:27:54AM -0600, Warren Young wrote: >> On Aug 5, 2019, at 6:57 PM, Fred Smith wrote: >>> >>> no core file (yes, ulimit is configured) > > yeah, I meant "ulimit -c unlimited" is in effect. That only affects the shell

Re: [CentOS] another bizarre thing...

2019-08-06 Thread Fred Smith
On Tue, Aug 06, 2019 at 03:49:29PM +, James Pearson wrote: > Fred Smith wrote: > > > > Hi all! > > > > I'm stuck on something really bizarre that is happening to a product > > I "own" at work. It's a C program, built on CentOS, runs on CentOs or > > RHEL, has been in circulation since the

Re: [CentOS] another bizarre thing...

2019-08-06 Thread James Pearson
Fred Smith wrote: > > Hi all! > > I'm stuck on something really bizarre that is happening to a product > I "own" at work. It's a C program, built on CentOS, runs on CentOs or > RHEL, has been in circulation since the early 00's, is in use at > hundreds of sites. > > recently, at multiple

Re: [CentOS] another bizarre thing...

2019-08-06 Thread Fred Smith
On Tue, Aug 06, 2019 at 05:27:54AM -0600, Warren Young wrote: > On Aug 5, 2019, at 6:57 PM, Fred Smith wrote: > > > > no core file (yes, ulimit is configured) yeah, I meant "ulimit -c unlimited" is in effect. I had no idea systemd had made such a drastic change. or is it that someone at RH

Re: [CentOS] another bizarre thing...

2019-08-06 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
Wow, thanks for the detailed recipe! How did we deserve this when it was so easy in the past :-) > On Aug 5, 2019, at 6:57 PM, Fred Smith > wrote: >> >> no core file (yes, ulimit is configured) > > That’s nowhere near sufficient. To restore classic core file dumps on > CentOS 7, you must: > >

Re: [CentOS] another bizarre thing...

2019-08-06 Thread Warren Young
On Aug 6, 2019, at 5:35 AM, Pete Biggs wrote: > > On Tue, 2019-08-06 at 05:27 -0600, Warren Young wrote: >> On Aug 5, 2019, at 6:57 PM, Fred Smith wrote: >>> no core file (yes, ulimit is configured) >> >> That’s nowhere near sufficient. To restore classic core file dumps >> on CentOS 7, you

Re: [CentOS] another bizarre thing...

2019-08-06 Thread Pete Biggs
On Tue, 2019-08-06 at 05:27 -0600, Warren Young wrote: > On Aug 5, 2019, at 6:57 PM, Fred Smith wrote: > > no core file (yes, ulimit is configured) > > That’s nowhere near sufficient. To restore classic core file dumps > on CentOS 7, you must: > I was under the impression that a SIGKILL

Re: [CentOS] another bizarre thing...

2019-08-06 Thread Warren Young
On Aug 5, 2019, at 6:57 PM, Fred Smith wrote: > > no core file (yes, ulimit is configured) That’s nowhere near sufficient. To restore classic core file dumps on CentOS 7, you must: 1. Remove Red Hat’s ABRT system, which wants to catch all of this and handle it directly. Say something like

Re: [CentOS] another bizarre thing...

2019-08-05 Thread R C
"has been in circulation since the early 00's"  I assume it is not the same binary since '00? SIGKILL usually comes from the kernel. is selinux enabled? Does the application start "automatically", or is it started by a user? Ron On 8/5/19 9:02 PM, Fred Smith wrote: On Tue, Aug 06, 2019

Re: [CentOS] another bizarre thing...

2019-08-05 Thread Fred Smith
On Tue, Aug 06, 2019 at 01:54:56AM +, Grant Street wrote: > Try checking your /var/log/messages for OOM killer log lines. If your machine > is running low on memory the oom killer will start killing high memory usage > programs. > > Grant we have watched top while it runs and there's no

Re: [CentOS] another bizarre thing...

2019-08-05 Thread Grant Street
Try checking your /var/log/messages for OOM killer log lines. If your machine is running low on memory the oom killer will start killing high memory usage programs. Grant From: CentOS on behalf of Fred Smith Sent: Tuesday, 6 August 2019 10:57 AM To: