On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 18:51 -0400, Bill Cole wrote: > Timo Sirainen wrote, On 4/30/09 12:27 PM: > > On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 18:25 +0200, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: > >> Apr 30 18:12:48 postamt dovecot: dovecot v1.1.14 starting up (core dumps > >> disabled) .. > It could also mean: > > 1. The kernel has some parameter set that is akin to BSD's kern.coredump and > forbids core dumps. > > 2. Some sort of enhanced security layer like SELinux or AppArmor is active > and is configured to disable core dumps.
Those can cause core dumps not to be written, but I don't think they can cause that "core dumps disabled" message. The message is written only if getrlimit(RLIMIT_CORE) (i.e. ulimit -c) returns 0 as the core size.
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