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From: "Gonyou, Austin" <austin@coremetrics.com>
To: "'new-httpd@apache.org'" <new-httpd@apache.org>
Subject: RE: dumps on Linux: some progress
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 10:59:40 -0500 
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Hmm..I'll research this a bit and see what I come up with. I think I can
find the answer here. 

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Austin Gonyou
Systems Architect, CCNA
Coremetrics, Inc.
Phone: 512-796-9023
email: austin@coremetrics.com 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg Ames [mailto:gregames@remulak.net]
> Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 10:10 AM
> To: new-httpd@apache.org
> Subject: dumps on Linux: some progress
> 
> 
> Last nite I figured out how to get a core dump of a threaded server on
> Linux when it seg faults.  After Justin pointed out that he's 
> seen dumps
> w/threaded, I noticed that I had a few old dumps in my home directory,
> and one in root's home directory, but nothing my configured
> CoreDumpDirectory (writeable by everybody w/the sticky bit set).
> 
> I had "User nobody" and "Group nobody" in my config file, to match
> daedalus as closely as possible.  hmmmm..."nobody" doesn't have a home
> directory.  So I created "webuser" which does have a home 
> directory, and
> only belongs to its own group.  Changed the config file to use this
> user/group, fired up threaded with mod_cgid, did an 
> "apachectl restart",
> and voila! a coredump appeared in my CoreDumpDirectory.  
> 
> I still don't know exactly what the deal is here (i.e., is it 
> important
> that "webuser" has a home dir?  is Mandrake's security stuff or Linux
> itself doing something to "nobody"? does this have anything to do with
> using threads?) but thought it might be useful to other folks.
> 
> Still nothing in the error log.  This shouldn't be a surprise 
> - we don't
> have code that logs when the parent itself seg faults.
> 
> Thanks to Justin for letting us know that core dumps are possible
> w/threaded on Linux, and to Ben whose Horse book is where I 
> got the idea
> for "webuser".
> 
> Greg
>