asterisk users - Jul 2006 - Change current working directory to /tmp

To get a core file, I started Asterisk with
cd /tmp
/usr/sbin/asterisk -g -p -U asterisk

Unfortunately, asterisk always changes the cwd (current working 
directory) to '/'
I checked that in /proc/.../cwd and with strace. I start asterisk as 
User 'asterisk', therefor it is not possible to write core dumps in /.

How can I force asterisk to use /tmp as cwd?

I have
Debian Sarge with Asterisk 1.2.7.1

Patrick,

I run asterisk in a chroot'ed environment and within it I cd into /tmp
just before starting asterisk. The kernel happily dumps the core files
into that /tmp directory. As far as I can tell, this behavior has not
changed recently and it definitely worked for 1.2.7.1.

You can also force a directory where core files should be dumped with:

mkdir /corefiles
echo /corefiles/core > /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern

The kernel will then dump all core files for any process into the
/corefiles directory.

--Luki


On 7/25/06, Patrick Cervicek <patrick@cervicek.de>
wrote:
> To get a core file, I started Asterisk with
> cd /tmp
> /usr/sbin/asterisk -g -p -U asterisk
>
> Unfortunately, asterisk always changes the cwd (current working
> directory) to '/'
> I checked that in /proc/.../cwd and with strace. I start asterisk as
> User 'asterisk', therefor it is not possible to write core dumps in
/.
>
> How can I force asterisk to use /tmp as cwd?
>
> I have
> Debian Sarge with Asterisk 1.2.7.1