Re: Can't make snort create a core file when it segfaults.

[Jason Brvenik <jasonb () sourcefire com>]

How are you starting snort? Can you set ulimit on startup instead?

I suspect it being reset is a function of limits.conf or /etc/profile
or ... setting it

can you just run it under gdb?

On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Andy Berryman <aberryman () cymtec com> wrote:
> Yes, I am.
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> -bash-2.05b# whoami
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> Thanks,
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> Andy
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> From: Matt Watchinski [mailto:mwatchinski () sourcefire com]
> Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 3:56 PM
> To: Andy Berryman
> Cc: snort-users () lists sourceforge net
> Subject: Re: [Snort-users] Can't make snort create a core file when it
> segfaults.
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> Are you running ulimit as root?
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> Cheers,
> -matt
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> On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Andy Berryman <aberryman () cymtec com> wrote:
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> One of my test boxes is segfaulting regularly. When it does, I can't make it
> create a core dump into a file. I've google'd and not found any answers.
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> I run "ulimit -c 1000000"
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> Then I run "ulimit -a" to see that it's set the file size correctly.
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> Then snort will segfault and I'll run "ulimit -a" and the file size will be
> back at zero again. I do a search of my file system with "find / -name
> '*core*' and nothing comes back.
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> Any suggestions?
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> It's this error every time in the syslog when it happens.
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> Feb  8 20:43:13 (none) kernel: snort[29313]: segfault at a ip 08079700 sp
> bfa8ac98 error 4 in snort[8048000+a1000]
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> Feb  8 20:43:43 (none) kernel: snort[29510]: segfault at a ip 08079700 sp
> bfb30c18 error 4 in snort[8048000+a1000]
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> Feb  8 21:04:54 (none) kernel: snort[29547]: segfault at a ip 08079700 sp
> bfbb05e8 error 4 in snort[8048000+a1000]
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> Feb  8 21:06:24 (none) kernel: snort[30630]: segfault at a ip 08079700 sp
> bf888348 error 4 in snort[8048000+a1000]
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> It'll do it every couple seconds, or it'll run for about 20 min and do it or
> an hour and do it. It's not predictable that I can tell.
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> I've disabled it loading the so_rules and that didn't work, then I disabled
> it loading all the other rules and that didn't work either. I read somewhere
> that it could be the wrong precompiled rules being used, so I deleted the
> snort_dynamicrules file and that didn't work either.
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> Thanks,
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> Andy Berryman
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> Cymtec Systems
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> support () cymtec com
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