In message <200409140637.i8E6b7HI028002@guild.plethora.net>, Peter Seebach writ
es:
>I am convinced that, once in the past, I used a Unix system which logged (via
>syslog?) all system-initiated terminations of processes.  For instance,
>segfaults.
>
>I just upgraded memory in my laptop, and I've had a half-dozen instances of
>programs just suddenly shutting down without warning... It'd be great if I
>had some kind of logging of what happened to them.
>
>They don't seem to coredump, which is itself a little disturbing.
>
>I'm running memtest in the mean time, but... I am curious as to whether this
>feature really existed.

If you have accounting turned on, lastcomm will show you processes that 
died with signals and/or core dumps.



		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb