[lug] Process dying without core dump

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 01:03:16PM -0600, Alan Robertson wrote:
>The symptoms are that one process of 4 (all forked w/o exec) dies
>without leaving a core file.

Are you sure that you have the limits set up to LEAVE a core file?

	sylvia:nospam$ ulimit -a
	core file size (blocks)  1000000
	[...]

Some people like to set that to 0 as a default to prevent leaving core
files laying around.

You might want to try making a version that doesn't fork, so you can
run from the command-line and see what's happening, and/or start
catching signals and report that (the latter probably being the
better idea).

Sean
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