[nycbug-talk] Strange Apache Coredump behavior

[Jesse Callaway]

oh okay.... duh I was responding to your follow-up saying that you fixed it
On Dec 30, 2011 4:48 PM, "Mark Saad" <mark.saad at ymail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Jesse Callaway <bonsaime at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > s/https/ with a d
> >
> > On Dec 30, 2011 3:43 PM, "Jesse Callaway" <bonsaime at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Apache https has its own corefile options. Since it starts as root it
> may
> >> override or ignore your system settings. I don't know the syntax
> offhand,
> >> and but the docs at apache.org should give some love.
> >>
> About that, the CoreDumpDirectory option did not seem to make any
> difference. I ended up removing it since it did not do anything for
> us.
>
>  From what I could tell it only helps when you want to override the
> kern.corefile sysctl . In my case I had defined it as
> kern.corefile=/var/coredumps/%U-%N-%P.core . The biggest pit fall with
> that sysctl was that I originally quoted the value which did not work
> ie kern.corefile="/var/coredumps/%U-%N-%P.core" This instructed the
> kernel to try and make cores named "/var/coredumps/... and it would
> fail since there was not directory named "
>
>
>
> >> On Dec 30, 2011 3:17 PM, "Mark Saad" <mark.saad at ymail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 10:14 AM, Brian Seklecki (Mobile)
> >>> <root at probikesllc.com> wrote:
> >>> >>
> >>> >>
> >>> >> I have no cores and I am stumped.
> >>> >>
> >>> >
> >>> > Check the apache RC script; it may be setting ulimit(1) on coredump.
> >>> >
> >>> > Also try to run a "Hello World" segfault tester as the www/httpd user
> >>> > and
> >>> > see if you get your dump.
> >>> >
> >>> >  int main(void)
> >>> >  {
> >>> >     char *s = "hello world";
> >>> >     *s = 'H';
> >>> >  }
> >>>
> >>> The end result of that issue was I forgot to set kern.sugid_coredump=1
> >>> in sysctl.conf .
> >>>
> >>>  Also in FreeBSD 7.3 gcore would not produce any usable coredumps from
> >>> apache. I could not figure that out.
> >>>
> >>>
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