Re: [gentoo-hardened] resource overstep RLIMIT_CORE

[Jan Klod]

On Tuesday 20 January 2009 15:45:25 Ned Ludd wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 11:17 +0000, Jan Klod wrote:
> > On Tuesday 20 January 2009 10:49:24 Manuel Leithner wrote:
> > > On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:40:33 +0100, Jan Klod wrote:
> > > > Hi list,
> > > >
> > > > could someone explain the meaning and possible causes (if possible)
> > > > of this message: "denied resource overstep by requesting 4096 for
> > > > RLIMIT_CORE against limit 0?
> > >
> > > One of your processes crashed and tried to dump its core, but since the
> > > RLIMIT_CORE is set to 0 (i. e. no core dumps are to be created), it
> > > can't do so.
> >
> > Ah, so it is just a secondary problem. Its ssmtp crashing. First it makes
> > a segfault, then receives signal 11 by grsec, then overstep.
>
> A segfault is signal 11. It's not two events but one. And grsec is not
> sending the signal in anyway but rather just logging that it happened.
>
> > Anyone here using
> > it with grsec?
>
> Lots of people.

In my case it is 2.62-r{2,5} on hardened-sources-2.6.25 with most of 
grsecurity options enabled and I can't get it working... Maybe someone of 
those lots has some suggestion? How to find out the problem or what is known 
to work?