Re: getting a regular user to dump core when a program crashes

2022-02-28 Thread songbird
Greg Wooledge wrote: ... > Well, that's interesting. You *can* specify an absolute directory by > this mechanism. I guess I learned something today. :) > So, what exactly was the complaint? That songbird shot themselves in > the foot by specifying an absolute directory for core dumps that w

Re: getting a regular user to dump core when a program crashes

2022-02-28 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 11:41:27AM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > By default, yes, that's the case. However, from songbird's original > post: > > i have the following set in my /etc/sysctl.conf: > > # core file location and file name format > kernel.core_pattern=/crash/core.%u.%

Re: getting a regular user to dump core when a program crashes

2022-02-28 Thread Reco
Hi. On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 11:41:27AM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2022-02-28 at 11:35, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 11:25:13AM -0500, songbird wrote: > > > >> >> me@ant(14)~$ ulimit -a > >> >> real-time non-blocking time (microseconds, -R) unlimited > >> >> cor

Re: getting a regular user to dump core when a program crashes

2022-02-28 Thread songbird
The Wanderer wrote: > On 2022-02-28 at 11:35, Greg Wooledge wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 11:25:13AM -0500, songbird wrote: >> >>> >> me@ant(14)~$ ulimit -a >>> >> real-time non-blocking time (microseconds, -R) unlimited >>> >> core file size (blocks, -c) unlimited >>>=20 >>> i

Re: getting a regular user to dump core when a program crashes

2022-02-28 Thread The Wanderer
On 2022-02-28 at 11:35, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 11:25:13AM -0500, songbird wrote: > >> >> me@ant(14)~$ ulimit -a >> >> real-time non-blocking time (microseconds, -R) unlimited >> >> core file size (blocks, -c) unlimited >> >> i had accomplished the ulimit ch

Re: getting a regular user to dump core when a program crashes

2022-02-28 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 11:25:13AM -0500, songbird wrote: > >> me@ant(14)~$ ulimit -a > >> real-time non-blocking time (microseconds, -R) unlimited > >> core file size (blocks, -c) unlimited > > i had accomplished the ulimit change already, but the lack of > the proper permission

Re: getting a regular user to dump core when a program crashes

2022-02-28 Thread songbird
Greg Wooledge wrote: ... > Just put 'ulimit -c unlimited' into the appropriate dot file to put > things back to how they used to be. > > This changed a *really* long time ago. I don't know exactly when, or > how. It pissed me off too, but it's the norm now, because everything > has been dumbed do

Re: getting a regular user to dump core when a program crashes

2022-02-28 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 10:01:05AM -0500, songbird wrote: > > i had some fun trying to figure out why a regular user could not > dump a core file Just put 'ulimit -c unlimited' into the appropriate dot file to put things back to how they used to be. This changed a *really* long time ago. I don'