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From: amoss@SHUM.HUJI.AC.IL (Amos Shapira)
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Subject: Re: preventing core dumps
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Date: 15 Feb 91 08:20:38 GMT
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YATES@C.CHEM.UPENN.EDU ("YATES, JOHN H.") writes:
>Is there a way under IRIX 3.3.1 to prevent core dumps or limit their
>size?

It's part of the process attributes, do:

limit core 0

(it's a csh builtin command). To find out about your limits just do "limit".

Hope this helps,
Amos Shapira
Hebrew University
Jerusalem, Israel
amoss@shuldig.huji.ac.il