On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Timo Sirainen wrote: > I was rather thinking that maybe the kernel doesn't want > to write core files to directories that are writable by > everyone.
Could it be that dovecot uses setuid to change permissions? Application would need 'prctl(PR_SET_DUMPABLE, 1);' according to http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-4897, since this distro doesn't have /proc/sys/kernel/core_setuid_ok I tried using a pristine 1.1.11 source build with a core_pattern directory that was owned by root, or by dovecot, or by the user, but I still didn't see a core there. Mark
