On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 07:18:48AM -0800, Steve Iribarne hit keys to express the following: > I realize this really isn't a "kernel" question but I've received sooo > much help on this newsgroup I new you guys/girls would be able to help > me out. > > I have an application that runs on a 2.6.10 linux kernel. Every once in > a while (as does happen to the best of us) it crashes. > > I need it to core dump to a certain directory when it crashes because > right now it core dumps into my ramdisk and when my server reboots > (because of the watchdog) I loose that core dump. > > So, what I would like to know is two things: > > 1. Does anyone know of a good library that I can build my app with that > I can do a quick stack trace and dump those results somewhere. > > or > > 2. Can someone tell me how to make the coredump happen in a "known" > good location. look at implementation of /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern for the 2nd question. First question is already answered I see. Om. -- Twenty Percent of Zero is Better than Nothing. -- Walt Kelly -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
