On Tuesday December 17 2002 01:39 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 06:36, villoing wrote:
> > I still have problem with core files.
> > I don't know why but since this morning a lot of files like
> > core.3412 are created into my home directory. How are they
> > created and are they usefull ? Should I keep them or should I
> > remove them ?
> > thx
>
> Obviously, there is a program (or two or three) that is bombing out
> - you can safely remove the core.XXXX files without worry - but you
> might want to modify your .bashrc file to have:
>
> # No core files by default
> ulimit -S -c 0 > /dev/null 2>&1
>
> ...in it...then you won't get those nasty little buggers...
Actually that shouldn't be needed. Mandrake puts these lines in
/etc/profile during installation, and they should eliminate core
files system wide
# Users generally won't see annoyng core files
[ "$UID" = "0" ] && ulimit -S -c 1000000 > /dev/null 2>&1
Software can cause segfaults (core dumps), but often it's hardware
problems http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/
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