Is there a way to redirect core files from the root file system?

[eskolnik]

Is there a way to redirect core files from the root file system? It says that cores go to the working directoty, but we have a process that starts in the rc scripts. It does a cd xxxxx thaen starts a deamon. The cores still go to root (/), how come?

ed

Ed Skolnik

 

[iribach]

you mean rc running in booting phase ?
the usr is root and (normally) his home is /
this script cores in all probability before
doing the cd
OR
works perfectly AND the next rc produce it.
file core will say the causing exec.

 

[eskolnik]

you mean rc running in booting phase ?
Yes

and no the script does'nt core before the "cd" the actual deamon cores..............

Just a thought

cd xxx
/opt/sometimething/runme.exec


if I do

(cd xxx; /opt/sometimething/runme.exec)


won't it run as as the same shell and thed new home would be xxx??????


ed

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Ed Skolnik

 

[iribach]

was ist das? ( german for: what's that)

 

[eskolnik]

What's that????


when you run a shell command wrapped in ( ) it't run's all of it in the same shell

Ed Skolnik

 

[iribach]

i mean:
(cd xxx; /opt/sometimething/runme.exec)
this is perfect, and what's in /opt/sometimething/runme.exec
maybe a cd OR a su OR a setuid prog
OR what-you-want....i don't know what's in it
you do not analyze the probl

 

[eskolnik]

That's bull....

The deamon cores and I want the core to go to something other than root (/)... forget this whole line of ???? , I 'll just call HP support................ Thanks for trying anyway...

ed

Ed Skolnik

 

[KenCunningham]

Workaround - set up a cron job to periodically look for core files in / and if found, move them to wherever you like, renaming them as necessary.

 

[RanganathRamachandra]

the daemon may be stubborn, it may be chdir'ing into / though you started it somewhere else. run it under chroot if you want the core file. if you dont want the core files just make a directory there named 'core'. i am not sure of this, but cant you set ulimit for that shell (ulimit -c 0)? i guess ulimit works on a per shell basis.