NOTICE: core_log: setid process, core not dumped

[Barry Margolin]

In article <diodjf$119$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 "Sajed Naseem" <naseems at stjohns.edu> wrote:

> Oct 11 08:30:28 genunix: [ID 603404 kern.notice] NOTICE: core_log:
> named[3406] setid process, core not dumped:
> /var/core/core.named.3406.hostname.1003.27.1129033828
> Oct 14 08:26:47 genunix: [ID 603404 kern.notice] NOTICE: core_log:
> named[8418] setid process, core not dumped:
> /var/core/core.named.8418.hostname.1003.27.1129292807

As a security feature, if named is running setuid, it will not create a 
core file when it crashes.

If you want to send the core file to the BIND developers so they can 
debug the crash, you should run it without the -u named option.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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