Followup On Perl Dumping Core

[Tim Daneliuk]

On 6/18/2010 2:33 PM, Greg Larkin wrote:
> Tim Daneliuk wrote:
>> On 6/18/2010 2:09 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote:
>>> On 18/06/2010 19:56:26, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
>>>> I should mention that I don't think it is actually "dumping core".
>>>> It's just reporting the problem in /var/log/messages...
>>> You'll only get a core file if the current working directory of the
>>> process is writable by the process.  Normally.  There are various
>>> sysctls you can use to affect core-dumping:
>>>
>>> kern.corefile: process corefile name format string
>>> kern.coredump: Enable/Disable coredumps
>>> kern.sugid_coredump: Enable coredumping set user/group ID processes
>>>
>>> See core(5). It is possible to set kern.corefile to an absolute path --
>>> eg /tmp/%N.core -- to always record corefiles in a writable directory.
>>> Also, look at setrlimit values for the maximum size core file permitted.
>>>
>>> 	Cheers,
>>>
>>> 	Matthew
>>>
> 
> 
>> Well ... I've figured out what's causing it, but I still don't know why.  This
>> is caused when '/usr/local/etc/rc.d/mailscanner restart' is issued from a script
>> I run to reset the mail system.  However, it does not happen every time ... go
>> figure.
> 
> Hi Tim,
> 
> I apologize if you mentioned this before, but are you using Spamassassin
> with mailscanner?  This message describes a problem that sounds very
> similar to yours, and there's a solution included:
> http://old.nabble.com/Re%3A-amavisd---exited-on-signal-11---FreeBSD-8-with-Perl-5.10-p28627858.html
> 
> Hope that helps,
> Greg


Aha!  Der plot thickens.  I am indeed running SA. I've just clobbered
/root/.spamassassin/*   This may well be the issue ...

Many thanks.

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