[Dovecot] core dumps disabled?

[Timo Sirainen]

On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 18:51 -0400, Bill Cole wrote:
> Timo Sirainen wrote, On 4/30/09 12:27 PM:
> > On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 18:25 +0200, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
> >> Apr 30 18:12:48 postamt dovecot: dovecot v1.1.14 starting up (core dumps disabled)
..
> It could also mean:
> 
> 1. The kernel has some parameter set that is akin to BSD's kern.coredump and 
> forbids core dumps.
> 
> 2. Some sort of enhanced security layer like SELinux or AppArmor is active 
> and is configured to disable core dumps.

Those can cause core dumps not to be written, but I don't think they can
cause that "core dumps disabled" message. The message is written only if
getrlimit(RLIMIT_CORE) (i.e. ulimit -c) returns 0 as the core size.

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