From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932150AbVL3OaM (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Dec 2005 09:30:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932154AbVL3OaM (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Dec 2005 09:30:12 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:32726 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932150AbVL3OaK (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Dec 2005 09:30:10 -0500 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: jared Subject: Why doesn't my system have the core_setuid_ok key? Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 09:19:26 -0500 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-24-11-54-76.hsd1.mi.comcast.net User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.5.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello all: I'm running the postfix mailing system and made a few modifications. It's dieing with signal 11 but not dumping core -- and I need a core dump. I asked on the postfix group how to deal with this but they said I need to come talk to a linux group. They said the reason is because my system will not let a process that starts life as root (but than drops privs) to dump core. They said I need to check my kernel.core_setuid_ok key, but my systems don't have that key. (I have redhat (2.4.20) and FC (2.6.12)) I've also already modified the /etc/security/limits and /etc/profile to allow system wide cores. Can anyone shed some light on my attempts to get cores? Thanks, Jared DeMott