Re: Custom core dump folder ?
On Apr 4, 2013, at 11:18 PM, patrick keshishian wrote: On single directory for everyone's core files? Personally I don't like that idea. Especially if I'm working on a project and want to find the core files in my current directory as a developer, you have a point :-) but you could just not change the default as admin, it's sure convenient to configure away from the default and have them in one place with one system-level config setting.. today, a cron job looks for cores once a day and tells me when he found some. On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 15:37, Jack N. Asher wrote: Is there a way to specify a custom core dump folder in OpenBSD ? This is the FreeBSD way (AFAIK, OpenBSD does not support it): sysctl.conf kern.corefile=/custom-folder/%U.%N.core cool, I didn't know that feature. thanks Jack! fl
Custom core dump folder ?
Is there a way to specify a custom core dump folder in OpenBSD ? I do not see any references to it in sysctl -a If not, is there a security reason for it not being supported or can it be added to a wishlist ? This is the FreeBSD way (AFAIK, OpenBSD does not support it): sysctl.conf kern.corefile=/custom-folder/%U.%N.core
Re: Custom core dump folder ?
On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 15:37, Jack N. Asher wrote: Is there a way to specify a custom core dump folder in OpenBSD ? I do not see any references to it in sysctl -a If not, is there a security reason for it not being supported or can it be added to a wishlist ? It is not supported, probably because nobody found any use for it. You can add anything you like to your wishlist, just keep your expectations in check. :)
Re: Custom core dump folder ?
If there is a list of daemons, etc. running 24/7, it would be useful if they all dumped in 1 folder rather than using a script to search for them. This way we will actually notice when a core dumps; the core is not buried deep inside a current-working-directory waiting for it to be discovered by some script. Even Python dumps core sometimes. Anyway, my $0.02. On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 5:02 PM, Ted Unangst t...@tedunangst.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 15:37, Jack N. Asher wrote: Is there a way to specify a custom core dump folder in OpenBSD ? I do not see any references to it in sysctl -a If not, is there a security reason for it not being supported or can it be added to a wishlist ? It is not supported, probably because nobody found any use for it. You can add anything you like to your wishlist, just keep your expectations in check. :)
Re: Custom core dump folder ?
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 12:42 PM, Jack N. Asher jnash...@gmail.com wrote: If there is a list of daemons, etc. running 24/7, it would be useful if they all dumped in 1 folder rather than using a script to search for them. This way we will actually notice when a core dumps; the core is not buried deep inside a current-working-directory waiting for it to be discovered by some script. Even Python dumps core sometimes. On single directory for everyone's core files? Personally I don't like that idea. Especially if I'm working on a project and want to find the core files in my current directory rather than some other place where there may be a ton of other core files festering away... --patrick Anyway, my $0.02. On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 5:02 PM, Ted Unangst t...@tedunangst.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 15:37, Jack N. Asher wrote: Is there a way to specify a custom core dump folder in OpenBSD ? I do not see any references to it in sysctl -a If not, is there a security reason for it not being supported or can it be added to a wishlist ? It is not supported, probably because nobody found any use for it. You can add anything you like to your wishlist, just keep your expectations in check. :)
