On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 01:22:20PM -0500, Steve Grubb wrote: > On Tuesday 22 January 2008 11:04:11 Adam Tkac wrote: > > I don't think so. As I wrote in > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=400461#c21 named is able > > to produce core file after setuid when /var/named directory is > > writable by named user. This is main reason why I want this directory > > writable. It means that you will have always core file when named > > gets sigsegv (no additional setup is needed, only writable > > /var/named). > > To me, that is not enough reason. You have to do some work to allow coredumps > at all. So, the admin may as well use /proc/sys/kernel/core_name_format to > tell the kernel where to put the file. Ah. I wasn't aware that you could change the coredump path with this mechanism. It sounds like that is worth investigating, but won't you run into the same problems with permissions on whatever directory you choose? How can you choose one system-wide directory for coredumps if each process runs as a different user? -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
