On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Tom Brinkman wrote:
Hi Tom,
> No, Bascule's not asking about core dumps, but about the core
>device, which definitely shouldn't be deleted. A plain english
Ah, oops. My error because of speed. Sorry, I hope Bascule did not follow
my advice!!
> Core dumps can be deleted, but they wouldn't be in either /dev or
>/proc. This line placed at the end of /etc/bashrc, 'ulimit -c 0' will
>prevent core dumps from even being written.
I noticed that in clean new installs of 7.1 and 7.2 (at least those I
know), an entry is made in /etc/profile that core dumps will be prevented
as you wrote when the user is not root:
# Users generally won't see annoyng core files
[ "$UID" = "0" ] && ulimit -c 1000000
Greetings,
Paul
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