[asterisk-users] [SOLVED] Re: Feature Request: what about "core stop panic" ?

[Jacek Konieczny]

On 2016-09-09 11:34, Olivier wrote:
> Adding an /etc/sysctl.d/foobar.conf file with the bellow content allowed
> me to at last produce core dump files (in /var/tmp directory), even if
> asterisk is run by asterisk user (and by root).
> I choosed this /var/tmp directory to make sure core dumps are not erased
> after a reboot and because this directory is "world-writable".
> To trigger core dumping, previously recommended "pkill -SEGV asterisk"
> was used.
>
> /etc/sysctl.d/foobar.conf content is simply:
> kernel.core_pattern=/var/tmp/core.%e.%t
>
> Maybe taming systemd to consider /var/lib/asterisk as a current
> directory when running asterisk daemon would be a better solution ?
>
> Maybe Asterisk or more generally long running daemons, should warn when
> they are run with "-g option" and from a current directory where it
> can't write any file (or any file matching core pattern) ?
> Maybe this is already done but I overlooked it or looked in the wrong
> place ?


Why not just use the systemd journal and coredumpctl for core files 
management?  systemd solves that quite well.

Jacek