Hallo Ted,
Ted Cooper <eximX0902w@???> wrote:
> Jörg Sommer wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> why exim sets the limit for coredumps to 0? If one of the processes
>> executed by exim, e.g. procmail, crashes I can't get a coredump. Is there
>> an option to tell exim not to do so?
>
> This is considered a debugging feature
That's not a debugging feature. It's a resource limit Exim manipulates.
There's no reason why Exim should change this limit.
> If you have things crashing and need to figure out what is going on, try
> a changing the source code to increase the size of the core dump and
> create a debug build of exim.
For me, Exim is wrong. It shouldn't change system settings it wasn't told
to do.
> For something like procmail, you should be able to reproduce the error
> outside exim to enable the core dump.
But I can't reproduce the crash. It happens very seldom and I've no idea
how to trigger it manually. That's why I want to enable coredumps, but
Exim stands in the way.
Bye, Jörg.
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