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Why does ppp(8) get a seg-fault, but I see no ppp.core file?

April 26, 2017file ppp.core seg-fault

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Why does ppp(8) get a seg-fault, but I see no ppp.core file?

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Ppp (or any other program for that matter) should never dump core. Because ppp(8) runs with an effective user id of 0, the operating system will not write ppp(8)’s core image to disk before terminating it.

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Ppp (or any other program for that matter) should never dump core. Because ppp runs with an effective user id of 0, the operating system will not write ppp’s core image to disk before terminating it.