On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 12:35:08PM -0500, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
> On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 06:12:47 -0500
> "D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <darcy@NetBSD.org> wrote:
> > I am trying to get a core dump of a running program (PostgreSQL master
> > process) and I just get a permissions error;
> > 
> > # gcore 728
> > gcore: ptrace(PT_DUMPCORE) failed: Permission denied
> > 
> > The gcore man page doesn't mention PT_DUMPCORE but I checked the code
> > and it is correct.  As an added datapoint, killing the process with
> > SIGABRT also fails to create a core file albeit silently in that case.
> > 
> > Anyone know what could be happening here or what I should check next?

Is the process you're trying to core-dump setuid?

Is the core size limit, perhaps, set to 0?

Thor