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[alan@xxxxxxxxxxx]

On 29 Sep 2003 at 21:26, Lenz Grimmer wrote:

Date sent:      	Mon, 29 Sep 2003 21:26:38 +0200 (CEST)
From:           	Lenz Grimmer <lenz@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To:             	suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxx
Subject:        	Re: [SLE] enabling/disabling core dumps

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> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 alan@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> > I want to enable core dumping on a process so I can do post mortem
> > debugging. This is a server process fired up by inittab which changes
> > its owner from root down to the the correct owner.
> >
> > Since it doesn't run via the shell - in fact the shell never runs at
> > all on this account, how do I turn core dumping on? (Come that how do
> > I turn it off when I've finished as well!)
> >
> > Any help on this one, or pointers as to where to look would be
> > appreciated.
> 
> The default is being set in /etc/profile. I don't know if it's actually
> being read when init spawns a process. What you could do is to create a
> wrapper shell script that enables the dumping of core files:
> 
> <SNIP>
> #!/bin/bash
> 
> ulimit -c <size>
> <your daemon>
> <SNIP>
> 
> Then modify /etc/inittab to call the wrapper script instead of the
> daemon directly. Hope that helps!
> 
> Bye,
>  LenZ

That works as long as you don't try to exceed value set in /etc/profile 
(20meg in this case)

Thanks for the help.

alan
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