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From: mikem+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: How to stop core files in /
Message-ID: <IaQKjXq00VRUI0xVYB@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: 9 Jun 90 21:36:35 GMT
Organization: Computing Systems, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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The X server on my decstation 3100's has a nasty habit of crashing and
dropping a LARGE core file in /.  (*)  I can live with the X server
restarting itself, but I would prefer not to have my / filesystem filled
up with the core file.

Is there any way of inhibiting the core dump, something like the shell's
limit command except for root?

(*) I have a heavily used program which either tickles a bug in the X
server, or is itself buggy.

Thanks,
                            Michael M. Meyer
                      Statistics/Academic Computing
                       Carnegie Mellon University.