[Samba] Can one set limits on new core dump?

[Doug VanLeuven]

Jerry,
Mostly my fault.  I switched over from idmap_ad from xos
to the relatively new option idmap backend = ad several months ago
around svn 12802 or maybe even earlier.  Didn't delete the
old ad.so in lib/idmap so I could go back if I wanted.
Then forgot about it.

I've been running svn 12802 without any issue, but last night
I went to svn 15162 and filled up the volume with core dumps
while I was getting some coffee.
Everything is OK now that I deleted it.

Of course, you might be curious why it loaded?  I still have
some cores and panic output.

And of course I'm curious why you're overriding my ulimit,
and what I might do to override your override during normal
operations.

Regards, Doug

Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
> Doug, I'm more interested in why winbindd is seg
> faulting in the SAMBA_3_0 tree.  Can you give me more
> details?
> 

> 
> Doug VanLeuven wrote:
>> Sorry Jeff, been there, done that, if you'd read the whole post.
>>
>>
>> Jeff Saxton wrote:
>>> man ulimit
>>> hint: ulimit -c
>>>
>>> Doug VanLeuven wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>> Is there anyway to limit the new core dumping panics?
>>>> Can't find anything on it.  (If I'd only looked in that ...)
>>>> Was my mistake, but winbindd filled up an entire volume
>>>> and froze out every process writing to that drive.
>>>> I started it from a shell and my soft limit is
>>>> already zero. (ulimit -S -c 0)
>>                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>>> FC4 2.6.16-1.2069 smp, gcc 4.0.2-8
>>>> samba 3.0.23pre2-SVN-build-15162
>>>>
>>>> Regards, Doug
>>>>
> 
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