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From: tyc@cbnewse.att.com (felix.a.lugo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Core dump sanity
Message-ID: <1991Apr5.180857.19581@cbnewse.att.com>
Date: 5 Apr 91 18:08:57 GMT
References: <SCOTT.91Apr4150850@texnext.gac.edu>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <SCOTT.91Apr4150850@texnext.gac.edu> scott@texnext.gac.edu (Scott Hess) writes:
| In release 2.0 of NextStep, NeXT for some reason decided to remove the
| previous default coredumpsize=0 for Workspace-spawned processes, and
| replaced it with coredumpsize=16M.  While this is fine in some cases,
| in most (almost all, in fact) it's sort of silly.  For instance, not
| many people have a use for an Icon core, much less a Mathematica
| core.
| 
	The 'defaults' name is "CoreLimit" (no quotes) for Workspace.  Use

$ dwrite Workspace CoreLimit 0

	to turn off core files of apps launched by Workspace.
	(You need to log out and log back in for these changes to take
	 effect.)

	For a quick test, launch the 2.0 Icon app and select the Edit menu
	item.  Icon will exit immediately, but no core file is created (try
	it before you set CoreLimit and a core file will be made.)

	Another useful default is "ShellPath".  This is the shell used by
	the New Shell menu in the Workspace (i.e. default is /bin/csh.)
	Use:

$ dwrite Workspace ShellPath /bin/sh

...
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...
| Later,
| --
| scott hess                      scott@gac.edu
| Independent NeXT Developer	GAC Undergrad
| <I still speak for nobody>
| "Simply press Control-right-Shift while click-dragging the mouse . . ."
| "I smoke the nose Lucifer . . . Banana, banana."

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