On Tuesday December 3 2002 08:43 am, Derek Jennings wrote:
> Core dumps are an entirely normal part of running Linux. Anytime an
> application 'segfaults' a diagnostic dump is produced. If you run
> flaky applications then core dumps are the consequence.
http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/ Y'all can form your own opinion.
Mine is occaisonal segfaults are software, frequent and/or random ones
are hardware caused. Linux crashes, it just doesn't take the whole OS
down with it ;)
> However ordinary users are generally not interested in core dumps and
> wish to suppress them. This is easily done by inserting the command
> ulimit -c 0 in the file ~/.bash_profile for a single user, or
> /etc/profile for all users.
These lines should be in /etc/profile just by doin recommended or
expert Mandrake install. IIRC, this has been the case for quite some
time.
# Users generally won't see annoyng core files
[ "$UID" = "0" ] && ulimit -S -c 1000000 > /dev/null 2>&1
I get occasional segfaults, always associated with certain apps,
but no core files.
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