Try the following: In a xterm type 'ulimit -c unlimited' (without quotes) now a dying program should produce those core files. there seems to be a restriction set for the maximum size of core files a program can produce. with that line above, you can change this. ulimit is a bash-built-in command. You find more in the manpage for bash i had the same problem and this had done the trick Christian Am Mit, 16 Feb 2000 schrieben Sie: > Has Mandrake 7 been set up to suppress core files? I've had several > programs die already without generating core files. Some of my own > programs have segfaulted without generating core files but do generate > core dumps on other machines... if this is the case, how can I re-enable > them? This is somewhat annoying. > > DvB
