[ale] Forcing Apache To Dump Core

[Chris Ricker]

On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 matty91 at bellsouth.net wrote:

> Howdy,
> 
> I am using Apache 1.3.27 with Redhat 7.3, and for some reason apache
> hangs every 4 - 5 days. I thought that "CoreDumpDirectory" not being set
> was causing me to lose core files, but this isn't the case. I have
> tried sending SIGSEGV to the httpd processes, and attempted to attach to
> the child proceses with gdb (all have proven fruitless :( ). Anyone
> know of any other mechanisms available to debug apache? I would love to
> get a stack backtrace to figure out _WHERE_ apache keeps hanging.
> Hopefully someone has run into this or similar issues before.

You could try strace

There's no particular reason apache shouldn't be able to dump core, though. 
Check /etc/profile and see if core dumps are disabled globally....

later,
chris