Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261514AbTIOQFz (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Sep 2003 12:05:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261515AbTIOQFz (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Sep 2003 12:05:55 -0400 Received: from keetweej.xs4all.nl ([213.84.46.114]:30865 "EHLO keetweej.vanheusden.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261514AbTIOQFy (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Sep 2003 12:05:54 -0400 From: Folkert van Heusden Reply-To: folkert@vanheusden.com Organization: vanheusdendotcom To: Alan Cox , alexander.riesen@synopsys.COM Subject: Re: logging when SIGSEGV is processed? Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 18:05:51 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 Cc: bert hubert , Mo McKinlay , Linux Kernel Mailing List References: <20030914111408.GA14514@strawberry.blancmange.org> <20030915070945.GD1091@Synopsys.COM> <1063612045.3734.6.camel@dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <1063612045.3734.6.camel@dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk> WebSite: http://www.vanheusden.com/ MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200309151805.52153.folkert@vanheusden.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1181 Lines: 27 > On Llu, 2003-09-15 at 08:09, Alex Riesen wrote: > > Probably ptrace the daemon (following all its children) would server > > better. The feature (logging the coredumps) is definitely no needed for > > everything, just some suspectables. > accton() will turn on logging and that gives you log records of process > termination including if it segfaulted. Sound's good. You probably mean acct()? There's one little problem with that one: NOTES No accounting is produced for programs running when a crash occurs. In particular, nonterminating processes are never accounted for. Folkert van Heusden +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | UNIX sysop? Then give MultiTail ( http://www.vanheusden.com/multitail/ ) | | a try, it brings monitoring logfiles (and such) to a different level! | +---------------------------------------------------= www.vanheusden.com =-+ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/