Hi folks I got this last recomendation from Burch Seymour RTPS
<bseymour_at_ns.encore.com>, and it seems to me very useful, so I think
would be good idea to share it:
"Another, less generic way, is to create a directory called 'core' in
the directory where a core file is likely to appear. Like the one you
are running the core-dumping-application from. Unix won't create a core
file if there is a core directory already there. This provides some
degree of tuning in case you want some core dumps but not others...."
Regards,
Leonardo Mosquera
System Manager
Internet Telecom
Colombia
Leonardo Mosquera wrote:
>
> Hi everybody, I got these answers from
>
> 1) Richard Westlake <r.westlake_at_mail.cryst.bbk.ac.uk>
> 2) Girish Phadke <pgirish_at_binariang.maxisnet.com.my>
>
> My question was:
>
> Hi everybody, I remember that something about this question was
> answered some time ago, but I can't find it, so I know that this
> wonderful list has the answer, how can I stop coredumps from being
> generated even for root? I have DU 4.0B and 4.0D, thanks a lot for your
> help.
>
> The answers are in order:
>
> 1) Try the shell command limit coredumpsize size
>
> the limit command on ists own will show the current limits
> e.g.
> # limit
> cputime unlimited
> filesize unlimited
> datasize 131072 kbytes
> stacksize 2048 kbytes
> coredumpsize unlimited
> memoryuse 152848 kbytes
> vmemoryuse 1048576 kbytes
> descriptors 4096
>
> for csh use limit
> for sh and ksh use ulimit
>
> ulimit -c is for core dumps ( I think)
> look at the man pages for sh
> its is near the end of man 1b sh
>
> 2) you can set in /etc/profile for ksh
> ulimit -c 0
> to limit coredump size to 0
> But user can change...this
>
> You can limit core dumping capablity which user can not change in C2
> level security .
> 1) enable C2 level security
> 2) use edauth or dxaccount to add entry u_rlimit_core#0 if you defined
> default template
> update the template also.
>
> Thanks to you,
>
> Leonardo Mosquera
> System Manager
> Internet Telecom
> Colombia
Received on Thu Jul 16 1998 - 23:58:18 NZST