Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!umich!vela!schemers From: schemers@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Roland Schemers III) Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix Subject: Re: How to stop core files in / Summary: cp /dev/null /core ; chmod 0 /core Message-ID: <1650@vela.acs.oakland.edu> Date: 9 Jun 90 22:10:26 GMT References: Reply-To: schemers@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Roland Schemers III) Organization: Oakland University, Rochester MI Lines: 23 In article mikem+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Meyer) writes: >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. > If you have root access try: su cp /dev/null /core chmod 0 /core That might stop it. By creating a empty core file owned by root and without any write access to it the program that dumps core might not be able to create a /core file. Roland -- Roland J. Schemers III Systems Programmer schemers@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Ultrix) Oakland University schemers@argo.acs.oakland.edu (VMS) Rochester, MI 48309-4401 schemers@oakland (BITNET yuk!)