[Dovecot] 1.0.alpha4 released

Jeff A. Earickson jaearick at colby.edu
Tue Oct 25 04:33:47 EEST 2005


Hi,
    While I subscribe to the idea that "well written code never core
dumps", I *want* core dumps in this case -- so I can run them thru
gdb and help improve the code.  I just don't want a zillion of the
same assert, which wasn't there in alpha3.

Jeff

On Mon, 24 Oct 2005, Todd Burroughs wrote:

> Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 17:47:44 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Todd Burroughs <todd at hostopia.com>
> To: Anders Lund <anders.lund at uninett.no>
> Cc: dovecot at dovecot.org
> Subject: Re: [Dovecot] 1.0.alpha4 released
> 
> On Mon, 24 Oct 2005, Anders Lund wrote:
>
>> Jeff A. Earickson wrote:
>>> core files appear in the home directory or whereever the index
>>> files and mailbox folders for a user go.  At least with imap.
>>> 
>> 
>> Ok. I'm unable to find any core-files in this location as well.
>
>
> You may need to set the ulimit for core files, it quite often defaults to 0.
> Try starting dovecot something like this:
>
> ulimit -c unlimited ; dovecot
>
> Todd
>


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