[Samba] How to get a core dump from Samba
Gerald (Jerry) Carter
jerry at samba.org
Fri Apr 5 06:49:39 GMT 2002
On Mon, 1 Apr 2002, Bill Moran wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm doing some experimental hacking around with Samba and
> I've successfully broken the thing ;) Now I want to capture a
> core dump and use it to find out exactly what part of my poorly
> written code is causing the sig 11. The docs claim that Samba
> should dump a core file somewhere, but I'm not finding it (I
> searched the whole HDD)
>
> I'm running Samba 2.2.3a on FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE. Just
> cvsupped the ports today and installed prior to starting my
> hacking.
>
> Is there something special I need to do during the build process
> to tell Samba to make core files?
Use the "panic action = /bin/sleep 9000" and attach to the
smbd process using gdb.
cheers, jerry
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