Hi, sometimes daemon dies silently, dont know why, dont know when, dont know where the coredump is. attached with a patch (made by "Peter Wang" ) to make the sysadm's life a little bit easier, by logging the coredump event in syslog (if user allows). when enabled (sysctl -w kernel.log_sig_exit=1), some syslog message will be generated if a process crash: Nov 1 15:32:54 localhost kernel: pid 4649 (coredump), uid 0: exited on signal 11 (core dumped) and then the sysadm can react promptly. trivial patch, but IMHO, very useful. cheers, -- Pengcheng