easier said than done ...
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 2:51 PM, PGNet Dev pgnet.dev+dovecot@gmail.com wrote:
yes. will post in a moment ...
service dovecot-custom stop rm -rf /usr/local/etc/mail/dovecot rm -rf /usr/local/include/dovecot rm -rf /usr/local/lib/dovecot rm -rf /usr/local/libexec/dovecot rm -rf /usr/local/share/doc/dovecot rm -f /usr/local/sbin/dovecot*
cd /usr/local/src/dovecot-2.0 rm config.cache hg pull hg update hg log | head -n 7 changeset: 10074:1d2d55d9779e branch: HEAD tag: tip user: Timo Sirainen tss@iki.fi date: Thu Oct 15 16:18:58 2009 -0400 summary: example-config: Updated listen setting's comment.
make distclean ./autogen.sh ./configure ... make make install
Run "ulimit -c unlimited" before starting dovecot, then it should write core file to user's home directory. http://dovecot.org/bugreport.html
* Dovecot must have been started without core dump size limitbeing too low. Run ulimit -c unlimited before starting Dovecot.
hm, already @ unlimited,
bash -c ulimit
unlimitedah, tcsh-ism,
limit coredumpsize
coredumpsize 0 kbytes
limit coredumpsize unlimited
coredumpsize unlimitedin master.conf ... service imap { protocol = imap executable = gdbhelper /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap ...
* Set mail_drop_priv_before_exec = yes in config file.ok, so where's this go now? if in mail.conf,
dovecot -n
# 2.0.alpha1: /data/mail/Conf/dovecot/dovecot.conf
doveconf: Fatal: Error in configuration file/data/mail/Conf/dovecot/conf.d/mail.conf line 21: Unknown setting: mail_drop_priv_before_exec
* Linux: Make sure /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern contains a propervalue. By giving an absolute path to it (e.g. /var/core/%p) the users don't need a home directory.
cat /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern
corebut @ startup,
tail -f /var/log/{dove*/dove*,messages}
==> /var/log/dovecot/dovecot.log <==
Oct 15 09:07:33 master: Info: Dovecot v2.0.alpha1 starting up (coredumps disabled)
how do i enable coredumps?