-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 I've got a problem with a piece of non-BSD software that I'm running on my OpenBSD 5.4 system. I'm not looking to you guys for help with it at all; I'm working closely with the developers on it. However, it turns out that it's not at a stage where it's receiving almost daily segfaults knocking it out of the active processes. Strangely enough, though I'm able to get .core files from many of the related programs that are along with it, when bad things happen to them, this one primary daemon won't leave a core file. I've checked my ulimits, specifically 'ulimit -u' under the user that this is running as, and I'm only finding that it's 'unlimited'. As far as I know, that means that I _should_ be getting a core file somewhere. The process name is 'sbbs', and I've searched (as root) my entire filesystem, not just the small separate filesystem that this resides on, doing a general search, grepping for 'core', and then searching through it for 'sbbs', and I'm not finding the file that I need anywhere. The developers do not have any OpenBSD machines available for work on this software, but they do want to help. Getting that stack trace is the only thing that might get around any issues, at this point, or point in the right direction for where to go with things. I know OpenBSD fairly well, but when it comes to kernel internals and things along the lines of core debugging and [a lot of the] ulimits, I'm still somewhat in the dark. Can anybody tell me if I'm missing anything obvious, and what I might be able to do to force a core dump next time this guy segfaults? I really need to get my hands on that stack and I'm clueless here. I use this package as a fully featured communications hub for myself and several other users, and short of the kludgy solution of running a cron script job that checks for the process, verifies its health, and respawns a new process if necessary every few minutes, I don't know what to do. I'd much handle things the right way, and learn a bit more about my favorite OS along the way. Any help is appreciated, feel free to get ahold of me any which way; telnet to tinfoil.synchro.net if you'd like to see the small text portion of the system in action. ;) All of the other provided services in the suite are temporarily blocked by the firewall due to my not having admin privileges on this network.
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