[Openswan Users] Pluto segfault on openswan-2.6.23

[Paul Wouters]

On Fri, 2 Oct 2009, Giovani Moda wrote:

>> cd openswan-2.6.23/OBJ*/programs/pluto
>> gdb pluto
>> core /var/run/pluto/core.???
>> bt full
>
> It doesn't seem to be generating the core dumps. It crashes, but no core
> file is recorded. I've tried different paths to de dumpdir= setting, but
> none worked. How can I check that pluto is acknowledging the parameter?

Check /etc/profile for ulimit commands or run a ulimit to enable core dumps?
It depends no the linux distro. Also SElinux might prevent dropping core
in certain places (hence my suggestion of /var/run/pluto/)

Paul