Add new Debian package "corekeeper" to centralize and reap core files.

debian/.gitignore

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 *.substvars
 /automake.mk
 /control
+/corekeeper
 /files
 /openflow
 /openflow-common

debian/control.in

@@ -76,3 +76,10 @@ Description: OpenFlow controller implementation
  .
  OpenFlow is a protocol for flow-based control over network switching.
 
+Package: corekeeper
+Architecture: all
+Depends: tmpreaper
+Description: Core file centralizer and reaper
+ The corekeeper package configures the system to dump all core files to
+ /var/log/core.  It also deletes core files older than 7 days.
+

debian/corekeeper.cron.daily

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+#! /bin/sh
+
+PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
+
+tmpreaper 7d --mtime --all /var/log/core

debian/corekeeper.init

@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+#!/bin/sh 
+#
+# Example init.d script with LSB support.
+#
+# Please read this init.d carefully and modify the sections to
+# adjust it to the program you want to run.
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2007 Javier Fernandez-Sanguino <jfs@debian.org>
+#
+# This is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
+# published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2,
+# or (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+# WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License with
+# the Debian operating system, in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL;  if
+# not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place,
+# Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
+#
+### BEGIN INIT INFO
+# Provides:          corekeeper
+# Required-Start:
+# Required-Stop:     
+# Should-Start:      $syslog
+# Should-Stop:       
+# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
+# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
+# Short-Description: Configure core file dump location
+### END INIT INFO
+
+PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
+
+. /lib/lsb/init-functions
+
+set -e
+
+case "$1" in
+  start)
+	log_daemon_msg "Initializing core dump location..."
+        if echo "/var/log/core/core.%e.%t" > /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern
+        then
+            log_progress_msg "success"
+            log_end_msg 0
+            exit 0
+        else 
+            log_end_msg 1
+            exit 1
+        fi
+	;;
+  stop|restart|force-reload|status|reload)
+        exit 0
+        ;;
+  *)
+	N=/etc/init.d/$NAME
+	echo "Usage: $N {start|stop|restart|force-reload|status}" >&2
+	exit 1
+	;;
+esac

debian/rules

@@ -111,6 +111,7 @@ install-indep: build-indep
 	dh_install -i
 	cd debian/openflow-datapath-source/usr/src && tar -c modules | bzip2 -9 > openflow-datapath.tar.bz2 && rm -rf modules
 	install -m644 debian/openflow-pki-server.apache2 debian/openflow-pki-server/etc/apache2/sites-available/openflow-pki
+	install -m1777 -d debian/corekeeper/var/log/core
 	$(ext_install_indep)
 
 install-arch: build-arch
@@ -135,11 +136,12 @@ binary-common:
 	dh_installdebconf
 	dh_installlogrotate
 	dh_installinit
+	dh_installcron
 	dh_installman
 	dh_link
 	dh_strip
 	dh_compress 
-	dh_fixperms
+	dh_fixperms -X var/log/core
 	dh_perl
 	dh_makeshlibs
 	dh_installdeb