Re: [gentoo-hardened] resource overstep RLIMIT_CORE

[Ned Ludd]

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.