Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!orion.oac.uci.edu!hardy From: hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy)) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Those ubiquitous core files and saving disk space Message-ID: Date: 3 Mar 91 15:42:47 GMT References: <23137@hydra.gatech.EDU> <442@heaven.woodside.ca.us> <1991Mar2.192816.27499@nntp-server.caltech.edu> Organization: U.C.Irvine, Dept. of Physics Lines: 14 Nntp-Posting-Host: golem.ps.uci.edu In-reply-to: rpm@sgi1.wag.caltech.edu's message of 2 Mar 91 19:28:16 GMT 1. You can put the limit core 0 statement into your .login or .chsrc files. 2. In SysV Unix (which I use on my other machines) I use another trick: make an empty core file in the directory where you most often dump cores; set its protection to 0: ---------- 1 root golem 0 Jan 27 23:37 core This prevents the system from dumping cores in your directory. 3. Use cron to find and remove nonempty cores once a week. Hardy -------****------- Meinhard E. Mayer (Prof.) Department of Physics, University of California Irvine CA 92717;(714) 856 5543; hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu or MMAYER@UCI.BITNET