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From: omerzu@quando.UUCP (Thomas Omerzu)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: How to stop core files in /
Message-ID: <1566@quando.UUCP>
Date: 10 Jun 90 14:01:50 GMT
References: <IaQKjXq00VRUI0xVYB@andrew.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: omerzu@quando.UUCP (Thomas Omerzu)
Organization: Quantum GmbH, Dortmund, W-Germany
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In article <IaQKjXq00VRUI0xVYB@andrew.cmu.edu> mikem+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Meyer) writes:
[...]
>Is there any way of inhibiting the core dump, something like the shell's
>limit command except for root?
[...]

You can use a csh-Skript to do the following:
	limit coredumpsize 1
	... <start server>

This limits the coredumpsize (for all children of this shell)
to 1 kB. If the core would exceed this size, it will not be dumped at all.
This does also apply to `root'-Processes.

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	Thomas Omerzu, omerzu@quando.quantum.de