asterisk cores directory [was: Re: Bug#498399: asterisk: random segfaults]

[Tzafrir Cohen]

Hi

Off-topic,

On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 11:19:59AM +0200, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 03:51:22AM +0300, Faidon Liambotis wrote:
> 
> > Have a look at /etc/default/asterisk and try to get a corefile.
> 
> I set:
> 
> AST_DUMPCORE=yes
> CORE_PATTERN='core.%p.%e.%t'
> 
> and /etc/init.d/asterisk set by default:
> 
> AST_DUMPCORE_DIR="/var/spool/asterisk"

Hmm... those changes to the init script of Asterisk make sense.
In recent 1.4 versions Asterisk does not change directory to / when 
daemonizing. 

This CORE_PATTERN is an ugly hack, because it is global: it affects all
processes. So maybe just drop it? (after Lenny, that is).

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