Dear gentoo users, since a few months I am getting core dumps in / and $HOME/ on my notebook. I am not aware of having changed anything with my PAM or similar settings. Has there be any changes to the default policy in PAM concerning core dumps?
I would like to suppress the generation of core dumps for normal users. ulimit -c as normal user gives me 976 block as root I get 0. I know that setting ulimit -c 0 in .bash_profile or .profile could be a solution but I'm looking for a more appropriate way to avoid core dumps for normal users. I already read http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/backtraces.xml but the information there seems to be somehow outdated since I don't have a /etc/limits.conf only a /etc/limits. But AFAIK this ought to be irrelevant for me as I am using PAM? Anyhow, I did not change anything to /etc/security/limits.conf or /etc/limits, i.e. everything in these files is commented out. I also checked /etc/conf.d/rc and it seems to be ok. So how can I get rid of these core dumps? I am using sys-libs/pam-0.78-r5. Some more general information about my system: # emerge --version Portage 2.1.2-r9 (default-linux/x86/2006.1, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.5-r0, 2.6.19-ck2-r1 i686) What else? Thanks in advance. Best regards, Christoph -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
