Enable coredump for daemon (oidentd)

[Ian Pilcher]

On 08/16/2011 11:58 AM, Ian Pilcher wrote:
> oidentd is crashing on me intermittently.  I have done the folowing to
> try to get a core dump when this happens:
> 
>   * Add "DAEMON_COREFILE_LIMIT=unlimited" to /etc/sysconfig/oidentd
>   * Add "kernel.core_pattern = /tmp/core" to /etc/sysctl.conf
> 
> ("kernel.core_uses_pid = 1" was already set.)
> 
> Despite this, there is no file named /tmp/core* after the daemon
> crashes.
> 
> What am I missing?

I have also removed abrt for good measure.
/proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern is back to /tmp/core, but I still don't
get anything in /tmp/core* when I kill the oidentd process with a
SIGSEGV.

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Ian Pilcher                                         arequipeno at gmail.com
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