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From: mathisen@dali.cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: How to stop core files in /
Message-ID: <2070@dali>
Date: 11 Jun 90 06:47:29 GMT
References: <IaQKjXq00VRUI0xVYB@andrew.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: mathisen@dali.UUCP (Jaye Mathisen)
Organization: Montana State University, Dept. of Computer Science, Bozeman MT 59717
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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?





How about 

%ln -s /dev/null /core

??  

Of course, it must be done as root.