Thanks very much for this reply as well. Three usefull bits of information. I will try these out ASAP. Owen On 14 Jan 2001 01:40:09 +0100, J . A . Magallon wrote: > > > On 2001.01.13 OS wrote: > > Please tell me how ulimit controls core dumping. > > > > With 'ulimit' bash internal command you can limit the size of any core file > dumped by the shell (and children, the commands you launch). > ulmit -c size: limit the size of core files. > > man bash, do a serach (/) for ulimit. > > If you want a user not core-dumpin, put a ulimit -c 0 in his profile... > > -- > 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 > >
