Re: Dumb question: Why are exceptions such as SIGSEGV not logged

[William Lee Irwin III]

On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 04:50:49PM -0400, Hank Leininger wrote:
>> ..So not *all* such cases are cause for alarm.  However, if you run one of
>> the patches enabling logging of this, you quickly learn what's normal for
>> the apps you run, and can teach your log-auditing tools and/or your brain
>> to ignore them.

On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 02:02:38PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> And why not just catch the ones sent from the kernel?  That's the one that
> is killing the program because it crashed, and that's the one the origional
> poster wants logged...

They're almost all sent by the kernel. Very few represent kill(1).


-- wli
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