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On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Mark Haidekker wrote:
> I used to get coredumps from crasing programs, but at some time, this
> stopped. I suspect it is somehow turned off by default in recent
> distros (RH). Does anybody know off their head where to change the
> setting?
>
> No, it's not a zero-byte coredump, it's no core file at all. Also,
> ulimit and quotas are not set.
I put the stuff below in my system tcsh .cshrc file. If you are using
bash, you might have something similar in your bash system-wide config
file (whatever that's called). Try "man bash" to get started.
Mike
# The line below essentially eliminates the core dump files that sometimes
# are created when programs crash. These files can be useful in diagnosing
# software problems, but more often they will take up space (e.g., 8 MB) on
# the hard drive and not be used or noticed. This command limits their size
# to zero bytes. If you need to see core dump files, run the command
# "unlimit coredumpsize". "man limit" for more information (for tcsh, refer
# to csh instructions).
limit coredumpsize 0
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