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From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
To: Paul Richards <paul@originative.co.uk>
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Subject: RE: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_sig.c 
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the part I like is:
/var/coredumps/%N.core


julian

On Wed, 8 Jul 1998, Paul Richards wrote:

> Not a bad idea to have configurable core file naming but bear in mind
> that the format we chose in the first place i.e. progname.core was done
> after much discussion since /etc/daily or one of the other similar
> scripts does a spring clean to remove them and if you pick something
> like core.progname you can end up deleting core.c and so forth.
> 
> I'd document this issue somewhere, as well as the fact that the cleanup
> script would have to be aware of the setting.
> 
> Paul Richards Ph.D.
> Originative Solutions Ltd
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Sean Eric Fagan [mailto:sef@kithrup.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 1998 12:59 AM
> > To: cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
> > Cc: dg@FreeBSD.ORG; cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG; cvs-sys@FreeBSD.ORG
> > Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_sig.c 
> > 
> > 
> > In article 
> > <199807072341.QAA02595.kithrup.freebsd.cvs-all@dingo.cdrom.com
> > > you write:
> > >> I wish we had a sysctl variable for the coredump name. Eg.
> > >> 
> > >> kern.coredump.name =
> > >> 
> > >> 0 -> disable core dumps
> > >> 1 -> core dump filename 'core'
> > >> 2 -> core dump filename 'program.core'
> > >> 3 -> core dump filename 'core.program'
> > >
> > >I think you should buy Sean a beer.
>