Bug#412886: exim4: Segfaults occurring

[Marc Haber]

On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 07:00:43PM +0100, Ronny Adsetts wrote:
> Marc Haber said at 26/03/2007 21:58:
> > Asking on exim-user yielded a pointer to core(5), which in turn
> > pointed me to proc(5). Additionally, Jakob suggeested setting
> > /proc/sys/fs/suid_dumpable to 1 or (safer) 2? to allow exim as a suid
> > binary to dump core.
> > 
> > The core file is going to be put in exim's spool directory.
> 
> Thanks - it helps me out some but "man 5 proc" which I grabbed from
> unstable says: "/proc/sys/fs/suid_dumpable (since Linux 2.6.13)" which
> gives me a problem since I'm on sarge with a 2.6.8 kernel.
> 
> Do you have any pointers on getting exim4 to dump core without a
> kernel upgrade? I can do it as a last resort with a backports.org
> kernel if needed but would prefer to avoid this.

Unfortunately, I have not found any relief short of replacing the exim
binary with an suid wrapper which sets the ulimits appropriately and
then hands over control to exim as root.

Greetings
Marc

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