I believe this is a function of your shell.  You can enable/disable it using the ulimit command in bash, the limit command in tcsh, or the rlimit command in ksh.  This command will enable/disable it for that shell, not system wide.

You can also use the limit command to change the max dump size.  If you run 'ulimit -c 0 ' in a bash shell, and something called from that shell crashes, you will get no dump.

On 3/22/06, phil <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
Today I got a panic from my server - filesystem is full on /  I took a look, even though I hadn't added anything to /, and lo an behold I had this in /root:

101648 -rw-------   1 root  wheel      99M Mar 22 03:45 ruby18.core

How can I stop ruby from writing a core here, and/or how can I limit it to a smaller size?  In the Unix partitioning scheme they advocate a small / partition for security, this mine is only 250Megs.

Thanks

P
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