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Author: Alessandro Vesely
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Who is disabling core dumps?

On 18/11/2020 13:38, tito via Dng wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Nov 2020 12:10:19 +0100
> Alessandro Vesely via Dng <dng@???> wrote:
>>
>> I enabled core dumps in /etc/security/limits.d/coredump.conf (* -
>> core unlimited); core_pattern and suid_dumpable are set
>> appropriately. However, most processes have a soft limit of 0; that
>> is, core dump disabled:
>>
>> # for p in $(ps -e -o pid| tail -n +1); do prlimit --noheadings
>> --core --pid $p 2>/dev/null; done | sort |uniq -c 1 CORE     max core
>> file size    0    0 bytes 260 CORE     max core file size    0
>> unlimited bytes 44 CORE     max core file size unlimited unlimited
>> bytes

>>
>> Only 44 processes have coredump enabled. Why? I looked for 'ulimit'
>> in /etc/init.d, .bashrc's, and other starters, but found nothing
>> relevant.
>>
>> The one with hard limit 0 is ssh-agent, presumably set by the program
>> itself for obvious security reasons.
>>
>> Who is soft-disabling core dumps for the other 260?
>>
>
> Apparmor?



Hmm... I have apparmor=0 in GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX, but still have an apparmor
script in /etc/init.d. Can it still bite?

Curiously, the shell in the root terminal window had 0. But all daemons were
already started by the time I could put my fingers on a shell's input.


Best
Ale
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