Jonathan, to get AOLserver to dump core, on Solaris I run start it as
a NON-root user form /etc/inittab, like this:
/bin/su nsadmin -c "/web/aol3/bin/nsd-oracle -i -t /web/mysite-staging/nsd.tcl"
If you need to start AOLserver as root (e.g., to listen on port 80),
there are other ways, but I don't remember them. It's all in the man
pages somewhere though, and I think has been discussed here before
too.
