Please tell me how ulimit controls core dumping. Sometimes even when there is output stating that core was dumped nothing is. Sometimes different crashes in the same program may or may not produce a core dump. Is there an 'r' in the month, did I have eggs for breakfast ? Owen On 13 Jan 2001 00:54:03 +0100, J . A . Magallon wrote: > > > On 2001.01.12 OS wrote: > > Hello, > > > > A colleague at work was bemoaning the fact that when an application > > crashes on Solaris you always get a core file dumped but with Linux it > > appears to completely hit and miss. A program that was core dumping > > before a very minor change will just stop core dumping. I said I would > > ask around a bit to try and find out what's what. > > > > Does anyone know the rules for core dumping under Linux ? > > > man 7 signal > > Also lookup 'ulimit' in man bash, this controls core dumpin per user. > > -- > J.A. Magallon $> cd pub > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] $> more beer > > Linux werewolf 2.4.0-ac8 #1 SMP Fri Jan 12 18:02:50 CET 2001 i686 > >
