Hi, I found that sometimes processes disappear on some heavily used system of mine without any logging. So I've written a patch against 2.6.18.2 which emits logging when a process emits a fatal signal.
Signed-off-by: Folkert van Heusden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.18.2/kernel/signal.c 2006-11-04 02:33:58.000000000 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.18.2.new/kernel/signal.c 2006-11-17 15:59:13.000000000 +0100 @@ -706,6 +706,15 @@ struct sigqueue * q = NULL; int ret = 0; + if (sig == SIGQUIT || sig == SIGILL || sig == SIGTRAP || + sig == SIGABRT || sig == SIGBUS || sig == SIGFPE || + sig == SIGSEGV || sig == SIGXCPU || sig == SIGXFSZ || + sig == SIGSYS || sig == SIGSTKFLT) + { + printk(KERN_WARNING "Sig %d send to %d owned by %d.%d (%s)\n", + sig, t -> pid, t -> uid, t -> gid, t -> comm); + } + /* * fast-pathed signals for kernel-internal things like SIGSTOP * or SIGKILL. Folkert van Heusden www.vanheusden.com/multitail - multitail is tail on steroids. multiple windows, filtering, coloring, anything you can think of ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Phone: +31-6-41278122, PGP-key: 1F28D8AE, www.vanheusden.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/