Nagios 2 quitting

[Ethan Galstad]

On 11 Aug 2004 at 6:43, Ian Holsman wrote:

> do a search for RLIMIT_CORE in utils.c and delete the setrlimit call.
> then in the shell before you call nagios do ulimit -c unlimited
> 
> this should let nagios actually dump core and then you can see what is
> causing it.
> 
> --Ian
> 
> hey Ethan.. what is the logic behind disabling cores in the code like
> this instead of using ulimit?
> 
[snip]

I think Karl actually submitted the initial patch to do this.  I 
believe the reasoning behind it is that daemons are not supposed to 
dump core when they bail.  Its not a big deal, as most bugs can be 
caught when you run Nagios as a foreground process - this allows a 
core file to be created.

Ethan Galstad,
Nagios Developer
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