Re: [newbie] Core file, what is it?

[Chmouel Boudjnah]

Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Indeed. It is a memory dump of a crashed program. This is only
> (afaik) generated by Gnome-oriented programs. I have once heard of a
> setting somewhere that prevents these large files from being written, but
> alas, I have no idea where I left it...

something like :

ulimit -c 0 

in your ~/.bashrc

NB: by default on Mandrake it's the default behavior for users and
active for the root user.
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