On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 13:27 -0500, Chuck Anderson wrote: > 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? /tmp ... <g> Simo. -- | Simo S Sorce | | Sr.Soft.Eng. | | Red Hat, Inc | | New York, NY | -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
