How to stop core files in /

[Thomas Omerzu]

In article <IaQKjXq00VRUI0xVYB at andrew.cmu.edu> mikem+ at 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?
[...]

You can use a csh-Skript to do the following:
	limit coredumpsize 1
	... <start server>

This limits the coredumpsize (for all children of this shell)
to 1 kB. If the core would exceed this size, it will not be dumped at all.
This does also apply to `root'-Processes.

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	Thomas Omerzu, omerzu at quando.quantum.de