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From: Michael Caplan <michael.caplan@lechateau.ca>
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Subject: RE: [users@httpd] Strategies for debugging a segmentation fault o n a
    production ser ver
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Hi Joshua,

Thanks for the tips.  Forensic looks like it certainly do the trick.  I'm
going to give that a spin.

For 1.3.33, do you know if CoreCumpDirectory is set, if it will generate a
dump when running in non-debug mode?

Thanks again,

Michael

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joshua Slive [mailto:jslive@gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 8:11 AM
> To: users@httpd.apache.org
> Subject: Re: [users@httpd] Strategies for debugging a segmentation fault
> on a production ser ver
>=20
> On 6/21/05, Michael Caplan <michael.caplan@lechateau.ca> wrote:
> > I am looking for some advice on how to go about debugging Apache 1.3.33
> /
> > PHP 5.0.4 on a production Linux box (RHE 3).  The scenario is this:
> Once a
> > day we find a segfault in our apache logs.  From our current position,
> we
> > don't know what page was accessed, and our 400+ users haven't brought
> the
> > issue to our attention.  All we know is the date/time and PID of when
> the
> > segfault occurred.  The question is this:  how can we go about isolating
> the
> > offending requested page that bombs?
>=20
> With a little luck, you can get apache to leave you a core file that
> can later be loaded in gdb to find the problem.  See:
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/mpm_common.html#coredumpdirectory
>=20
> Another alternative is mod_log_forensic:
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/mod_log_forensic.html
> which is designed to isolate requests that cause a crash.
>=20
> Joshua.
>=20
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