Bug 78313 - daemon function should have a core dump option
Summary: daemon function should have a core dump option
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: initscripts
Version: 7.2
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bill Nottingham
QA Contact: Brock Organ
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-11-21 05:52 UTC by thalakan
Modified: 2014-03-17 02:32 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

Fixed In Version: 7.85-1
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2005-09-29 21:20:41 UTC
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Description thalakan 2002-11-21 05:52:11 UTC 
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Description of problem:
The daemon function currently sets the core dump size to 0 unconditionally.  It
would be nice to have a --daemon argument which could be passed to it so
application developers can ship "debug" packages which use that to generate core
dumps of a misbehaving application.  Currently, the application developer has to
directly modify /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions, which changes its hash.  And since
initscripts is a base package, security automation at some sites interpret this
as sign of a possible intrusion.

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Er, this is a feature request...

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