argus crash problem

[Lei Wei]

I took a look at the system and freebsd seems to default it to be 
unlimited. So I guess it's fine. But I didn't get any core dump before. 
I'll run it and get the debug error output back to you soon.

Thanks.
Lei


Quoting Peter Van Epp <vanepp at sfu.ca>:

> On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 12:10:36PM -0500, Lei Wei wrote:
>> Hey Carter and Peter,
>>
> <snip>
>>
>> I don't quite understand the following in Peter's email: "assuming
>> you have corelimit set to a non zero value gdb on the core will give
>> Carter good information.", could you give me some instrutions on how to
>> do it so that I can provide more helpful info?
>>
>> Again, thanks for all your help.
>>
>> Lei
>>
>
> 	Looks like corelimit is a solarisizm :-). Your shell may have a
> limit on core size (usually 0) so when a program cores the core isn't saved.
> I don't remember what FreeBSD does (it may be non zero by default in which
> case you will be fine) but on SUSE Linux you need to add
>
> ulimit -c unlimited
>
> to your bash profile because it defaults to 0 and you won't get a core.
> Mac OS10.4 does create cores by default and FreeBSD may too.
>
> Peter Van Epp / Operations and Technical Support
> Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C. Canada
>