Re: directory for core dump files

[Antti Kantee <pooka%cs.hut.fi@localhost>]

On Sat Sep 13 2008 at 14:24:51 +0100, Adrian Portelli wrote:
> Aleksey Cheusov wrote:
> > Is it possible to configure NetBSD kernel to dump core files to a
> > specified directory?
> > 
> > 'sysctl -a | grep core' doesn't show anything appropriate.
> > 
> 
> What version of NetBSD are you on ?  It's there with 4
> 
> kern.coredump.setid.path = /var/crash/%n.core

That's, as the name suggests, for setid executables.

You want either kern.defcorename or, to adjust it for a single running
process, proc.pid.corename.  See core(5).