On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 22:12:49 +0100 Christoph Nodes wrote: > 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 information there seems to be somehow outdated since I don't have a 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
As best I know, it's the ulimit setting that's relevant and pam is not involved. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
