[Linux-HA] /var/lib/heartbeat permission all belong to root

Lars Marowsky-Bree lmb at suse.de
Tue Jul 17 17:16:54 MDT 2007


On 2007-07-17T15:31:05, Brian Reichert <reichert at numachi.com> wrote:

> > Yes, the permissions on this will keep some Heartbeat processes from
> > core dumping.  Other permission errors can cause other problems.
> Couldn't one use setrlimit() to manage RLIMIT_CORE directly?  (If
> supressing code dumps is a goal.) 

It's exactly the other way around. We _want_ the non-privileged
processes to be able to dump core so we can debug that, if it ever
happens. For that, the directory needs to be writable by them.


Regards,
    Lars

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