One would think the intelligent thing to do is find out what's generating
the cores. Simply removing them via a script and being happy that you've
"not seen a core in weeks" is a bit "Marie Antoinette/Let them eat cake"...
but what do I know?
YMMV
Don
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Benjamin Sher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, November 05, 1999 10:42 PM
> To: Helios-Exp
> Subject: [expert] Remove "core" magically -- Opinion
>
>
> Dear friends:
>
> [Using Mandrake 6.1, AMD k6-2 400 Mhrtz, 128 megs of Ram]
>
> My friend Jose M. Sanchez, a frequent advisor to Red Hat and Mandrake
> lists and someone whom I have the highest professional respect for,
> suggested that I could get rid of the frequent "core" files by editing
> the /etc/profile file as follows:
>
> # In bash2 we can't define a ulimit more than 0 for user :-(
> [ "$UID" = "0" ]
>
> && {
>
> ulimit -c 0
>
> } || {
>
> ulimit -c 0 }
>
>
> The change he recommend (and which I have put into effect) involved
> changing the default value for the FIRST "ulimit" -c from 10 to 0.
>
> I am a non-techie, and as such, while I have full faith in Jose's
> judgment, I would appreciate opinions from other gurus as to whether
> they agree with Jose and whether there are, in their opinion, any
> side-effects that I should take into consideration.
>
> For the record, I made this change about a week to 10 days
> ago and have
> not had a single "core" that I know of on my system.
>
> Thank you so very much.
>
> Benjamin
>
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