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From: paulb@ttidca.TTI.COM (Paul Blumstein)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Some core dump questions
Message-ID: <9459@ttidca.TTI.COM>
Date: 1 Feb 90 00:02:35 GMT
References: <5458@hydra.gatech.EDU>
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In article <5458@hydra.gatech.EDU> mm42@prism.gatech.EDU (Mark Mitchell) writes:
+Problem #1:
+I'd like to eliminate the creation of core files on a group
+of Sun workstations, except when the user specifically wants
+to get one.  The only way I've come up with so far (under csh)
+is to set a limit on the size of core dumps and make it very
+small.  This seems awkward at best, so any superior scheme would
+be welcome.

You were on the right track, but didn't make it small enough.
	limit coredump 0
under csh will do what you want.  The neat thing is that the bombed
program will terminate faster since it doesn't have to format the
dump before it terminates.  You probably got confused by the man page which
implies that 0 = unlimited.  Actually, I don't know how to set it back to
unlimited.
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