[Samba] How to get a core dump from Samba

[Andrew Bartlett]

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?

See the current disucussion on samba-technical@ regarding panic actions
and the like.  (in the 15,000 user thread).  Set 'panic action =
/bin/sleep 9000' in your smb.conf and attach a debugger is the
simpilist, but you can also load samba in gdb in an xterm and other cool
stuff.

Andrew Bartlett

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