[Samba] How to get a core dump from Samba

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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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