How to get coredumps from smbd internal errors

[Tim Potter]

> > I'm trying to get a coredump generated from my smbd but it doesn't seem to
> > want to do it!  I've made a /var/adm/samba/corefiles directory, made it
> > a+w, checked the ulimit settings and read the doco.  (-:
> 
> depends on your OS. Current versions of Linux don't do coredumps on
> processes that have changed uid. This is a kernel bug, and will
> hopefully be fixed, the right fix is to set RLIMIT_CORE to 0 when a
> uid change is made and allow the app to up it again.

I'm running under solaris at the moment.

> hmmm, or maybe the problme is the exit() in smb_panic() ? hmmm, I'll
> change it to abort().

That was one reason - if you commented out the call to smb_panic() it
actually says it is dumping core but doesn't get around it.

> meanwhile, use "panic action" instead. Mine is set to:
> 
>   panic action = /usr/bin/X11/xterm -display :0 -e gdb /proc/%d/exe %d

What proc entry could I use for solaris?  Only linux seems to have an
exe entry.


Tim.