I have the following set up on a Sun server running solaris 5.8 for core dump generation
[rss10@jsh1035c:JSDISC01] coreadm
global core file pattern: /var/core
init core file pattern: /var/core
global core dumps: enabled
per-process core dumps: enabled
global setid core dumps: disabled
per-process setid core dumps: disabled
global core dump logging: enabled
[rss10@jsh1035c:JSDISC01] ulimit -a
time(seconds) unlimited
file(blocks) unlimited
data(kbytes) unlimited
stack(kbytes) 8192
coredump(blocks) 10000000
nofiles(descriptors) 256
vmemory(kbytes) unlimited
I have even run the command coreadm -p core.%f.%p $$, but have had no luck it managing to create a core file.
I am testing the generation with the following simple C program
int main ()
{
int c;
c=9/0;
}
This will cause a core dump (i am 99% certain), but alas not for me.
Anyone got any suggestions?