Thanks Andrej and Manish. I will try to see if I can use logrotat or atleast buy the logic from it.
Thanks, SADA On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 10:55 PM, Manish Katiyar <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 5:31 AM, SADA SIVA REDDY S > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi All, > > I have a situation like below. I am using RHEL 5. > > > > I have multiple user processes running on my machine. > > I have set the appropriate sizes for core file size. > > But my process maangement demon is designed to restart any process that > > terminates. > > Hence the process starts up again. > > If I have a very bad nasty defect, it will keep on filling my machine > with > > core files until I run out of space on the partition. > > > > My Questions: > > > > Is there a provision in Linux to automatically cleanup the old corefiles > > when we reach a certain limit ? > > Is there a provision in Linux to set a upper limit for space occupied by > all > > core files (not individual core files) ? > > > > Any inputs appreciated. > > May be "man logrotate" can help. > > -- > Thanks - > Manish >
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