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[ILUG] Tracking Down A child Process

[ILUG] Tracking Down A child Process

Josh Glover jmglov at wmalumni.com
Tue Jul 3 02:33:20 IST 2007


On 03/07/07, Kieran OSullivan <kieran.osullivan at ireland.com> wrote:

> I am having trouble with a child of the apache process which is generating the following error in the http error log
>
> [Sun Jul 01 09:47:25 2007] [notice] child pid 31850 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
>
> How do I find out what this process is as it dies without a trace every time.

Turn on core files; stick:

ulimit -c unlimited

in /etc/init.d/apache in the start section.

Then,

gdb /path/to/core/file
bt

> Is there any way of getting apache to tell me more about it or could I use a tool like strace.

You could use strace if you knew ahead of time which process was going
to die, but it sounds like you don't know that.

-- 
Cheers,
Josh



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