how to get iPlanet to core dump

[Russ Jones_1]

First off, HPUX 11.11_3.

We're having a problem with a plug-in that runs under iPlanet 4.1 web server. We're using Oblix NetPoint identity management software to validate web users.

To make a long story short, a recent patch to NetPoint caused the iPlanet server to hang when we try and access certain pages. syslog.log, iPlanet's access and errors logs and the Oblix log all show that iPlanet restarts itself exactly at the point where we click on the page that causes the hang. Oblix wants a core dump and stack trace from this point. I'm not convinced that iPlanet isn't doing some kind of semi-orderly restart. We don't get any core file from the process.

Does anyone have any experience with this, either with patching Oblix from 6.1.1 to 6.1.1.13, or with forcing iPlanet to give us a dump when it restarts? Oblix won't continue work until we can provide them with the core file and stack trace.

Upgrading iPlanet from 4.1 to whatever is the most current Sun One server (6.x, I think) isn't an option in the short term. We're planning to do the upgrade, but we've been told that there's a serious security vulnerability in the 6.1.1 version of Oblix that MUST BE ADDRESSED.

Thanks
Russ Jones
The Boeing Company

[RAC_1]

kill -3 or kill -6 should do it.

man 5 signal for details.

Anil

[Russ Jones_1]

That would be okay, except Oblix wants to see the dump and the stack trace at the point where iPlanet restarted itself. If we're able to issue a kill -anything then we'd just be sending them a copy of the normal state of a properly executing program.

But thanks.

[RAC_1]

There is also utility "gcore" which gets the image of a running process. This is introduced by few patches. you need to install following patches for it.

PHKL_31876
PHCO_32173


Also you may want to have alook at tusc tool.

Anil