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Re:Don't Leave Coredumps on Web Servers by andreareina on Friday June 16, 2017 @07:42AM (#14568089)
No OS I've used in the last ~10 years left a core dump by default. Maybe longer, but I didn't know what core dumps were then, so I wouldn't know what I was looking at if they did.
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Re:Don't Leave Coredumps on Web Servers by cyphar on Saturday June 17, 2017 @02:10AM (#14574538)
Almost all Unixes generate coredumps by default. illumos, FreeBSD, and yes GNU/Linux. The reason why you might not have seen coredumps in a cores/ directory is because most GNU/Linux distributions have configured the kernel such that all new coredumps are sent to a processing script (systemd has a coredump script) which results in a coredump file not included in the current directory.
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Re:Don't Leave Coredumps on Web Servers by khedoros1 on Friday June 16, 2017 @04:00PM (#14572195)
A bunch of the Unixes I've worked with do, it seems like. And at least some of the Linux systems on my own computers (I'm almost positive that this was my first contact with the idea of a core dump).
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