Gentoo Archives: gentoo-hardened

From: Jan Klod <janklodvan@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-hardened@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] resource overstep RLIMIT_CORE
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:17:24
Message-Id: 200901201117.19258.janklodvan@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-hardened] resource overstep RLIMIT_CORE by Manuel Leithner
1 On Tuesday 20 January 2009 10:49:24 Manuel Leithner wrote:
2 > On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:40:33 +0100, Jan Klod wrote:
3 > > Hi list,
4 > >
5 > > could someone explain the meaning and possible causes (if possible) of
6 > > this message: "denied resource overstep by requesting 4096 for
7 > > RLIMIT_CORE against limit 0?
8 >
9 > One of your processes crashed and tried to dump its core, but since the
10 > RLIMIT_CORE is set to 0 (i. e. no core dumps are to be created), it can't
11 > do so.
12
13 Ah, so it is just a secondary problem. Its ssmtp crashing. First it makes a
14 segfault, then receives signal 11 by grsec, then overstep. Anyone here using
15 it with grsec?

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Re: [gentoo-hardened] resource overstep RLIMIT_CORE Ned Ludd <solar@g.o>