On 6/18/2010 2:45 PM, Tim Daneliuk wrote: > On 6/18/2010 2:33 PM, Greg Larkin wrote: >> Tim Daneliuk wrote: >>> On 6/18/2010 2:09 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote: >>>> On 18/06/2010 19:56:26, Tim Daneliuk wrote: >>>>> I should mention that I don't think it is actually "dumping core". >>>>> It's just reporting the problem in /var/log/messages... >>>> You'll only get a core file if the current working directory of the >>>> process is writable by the process. Normally. There are various >>>> sysctls you can use to affect core-dumping: >>>> >>>> kern.corefile: process corefile name format string >>>> kern.coredump: Enable/Disable coredumps >>>> kern.sugid_coredump: Enable coredumping set user/group ID processes >>>> >>>> See core(5). It is possible to set kern.corefile to an absolute path -- >>>> eg /tmp/%N.core -- to always record corefiles in a writable directory. >>>> Also, look at setrlimit values for the maximum size core file permitted. >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> >>>> Matthew >>>> >> >> >>> Well ... I've figured out what's causing it, but I still don't know why. >>> This >>> is caused when '/usr/local/etc/rc.d/mailscanner restart' is issued from a >>> script >>> I run to reset the mail system. However, it does not happen every time ... >>> go >>> figure. >> >> Hi Tim, >> >> I apologize if you mentioned this before, but are you using Spamassassin >> with mailscanner? This message describes a problem that sounds very >> similar to yours, and there's a solution included: >> http://old.nabble.com/Re%3A-amavisd---exited-on-signal-11---FreeBSD-8-with-Perl-5.10-p28627858.html >> >> Hope that helps, >> Greg > > > Aha! Der plot thickens. I am indeed running SA. I've just clobbered > /root/.spamassassin/* This may well be the issue ... > > Many thanks. >
It would seem that this was the problem. Clearing out the old contents of .spamassassin made the perl SEGVs stop... -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
