Re: curedump configuration additions

2001-05-07 Thread Michael Miller
Hi. I have added kernel.coredump_suid_enabled which will allow the generation of core dumps for SUID processes. (Defaults to off). Also I changed the default logging to off, as suggested to avoid a posible DOS. Finally I have changed the logging messages to include EUID and EGID if differ

Re: curedump configuration additions

2001-05-06 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
On Sat, 5 May 2001, Michael Miller wrote: > +coredump_enabled: > +When enabled (which is the default), Linux will produce [...] > +coredump_log: > +The default is to log coredumps. The default looks like an effective way to DoS logging, fill system partition fast. Nice other optional feature w

Re: curedump configuration additions

2001-05-05 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
=?iso-8859-1?Q?Jak writes: > Hi, just wanted to recommend that this goes in, in one form or > another - it would help a lot around here. Yes, it looks very nice. The codes match those used by ps even. > Today we have to manually "fix" the kernel > source to get proper core.[executable] naming

Re: curedump configuration additions

2001-05-05 Thread Jakob Østergaard
On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 08:55:09PM +0100, Michael Miller wrote: > Hi, > > I have added some configuration options to the coredump abilities of the > kernel. Please can this patch be considered for addition to the kernel. Hi, just wanted to recommend that this goes in, in one form or another -

curedump configuration additions

2001-05-05 Thread Michael Miller
Hi, I have added some configuration options to the coredump abilities of the kernel. Please can this patch be considered for addition to the kernel. I have added three sysctl variables which control the 'features' I have added. These are: kernel.coredump_enabled kernel.coredump_log kernel.co