At 05:37 PM 12/27/00 -0800, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I made a typo in newsfeeds.conf and caused dnews to crash. When it crashes
>it does a core dump. Unfortunately, it does it to the /usr/local/dnews
>directory. This can be a BIG PROBLEM since it came within 40 megs of
>filling the / partition and crashing linux. Is there any way to cause
>core dumps to go to the spool directory. There are gigabytes of room
>there, but the /usr directory is on a much smaller partition. Turning the
>core dump off completely would also be a solution.
In dnews_start.sh (or dmulti_start.sh) I believe if you cd to a different
directory before starting dnews then that is where the core will appear
ChrisP.