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From: Magnus Granberg <zorry@×××.nu>
To: gentoo-hardened@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] resource overstep RLIMIT_CORE
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 23:34:19
Message-Id: 200901210130.08703.zorry@ume.nu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-hardened] resource overstep RLIMIT_CORE by Jan Klod
1 On Tuesday 20 January 2009 20.25.22 Jan Klod wrote:
2 > On Tuesday 20 January 2009 15:45:25 Ned Ludd wrote:
3 > > On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 11:17 +0000, Jan Klod wrote:
4 > > > On Tuesday 20 January 2009 10:49:24 Manuel Leithner wrote:
5 > > > > On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:40:33 +0100, Jan Klod wrote:
6 > > > > > Hi list,
7 > > > > >
8 > > > > > could someone explain the meaning and possible causes (if possible)
9 > > > > > of this message: "denied resource overstep by requesting 4096 for
10 > > > > > RLIMIT_CORE against limit 0?
11 > > > >
12 > > > > One of your processes crashed and tried to dump its core, but since
13 > > > > the RLIMIT_CORE is set to 0 (i. e. no core dumps are to be created),
14 > > > > it can't do so.
15 > > >
16 > > > Ah, so it is just a secondary problem. Its ssmtp crashing. First it
17 > > > makes a segfault, then receives signal 11 by grsec, then overstep.
18 > >
19 > > A segfault is signal 11. It's not two events but one. And grsec is not
20 > > sending the signal in anyway but rather just logging that it happened.
21 > >
22 > > > Anyone here using
23 > > > it with grsec?
24 > >
25 > > Lots of people.
26 >
27 > In my case it is 2.62-r{2,5} on hardened-sources-2.6.25 with most of
28 > grsecurity options enabled and I can't get it working... Maybe someone of
29 > those lots has some suggestion? How to find out the problem or what is
30 > known to work?
31
32 http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-728429.html
33 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=253733
34 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=254843
35 We have some RLIMIT bug in the hardened-sources
36 Gordon Malm know more about it.
37 /Zorry