[Dovecot] problems with dotlock

[Jose Celestino]

Words by Timo Sirainen [Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 05:41:39PM -0500]:
> On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 14:28 -0800, Mark Hedges wrote:
> > > b) Kernel doesn't want to write the core to /tmp/core or
> > > before changing that it didn't want to write it to user's
> > > home directory.
> > 
> > [root at anubis etc]# grep -i core
> > /boot/config-2.6.18-92.1.22.el5
> > CONFIG_ELF_CORE=y
> > # Core Netfilter Configuration
> > CONFIG_MLX4_CORE=m
> > CONFIG_SERIAL_CORE=y
> > CONFIG_SERIAL_CORE_CONSOLE=y
> > # CONFIG_I2C_OCORES is not set
> > # CONFIG_I2C_DEBUG_CORE is not set
> > CONFIG_PROC_KCORE=y
> > CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE=y
> > 
> > Is that informative?
> 
> core dumping functionality is there, but I guess the problem has more to
> do with directory owner/permissions where it's writing the core file.
> 

echo /tmp/core > /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern

I guess /tmp should be writeable :)

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